Definition of bleak house:
(N) :
a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853.
(N) :
a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name, which was originally published in 1852–53 as itself a print serialisation over 20 months.
(N) :
a BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985.
(N) :
an antebellum Classical Revival style house in Knoxville, Tennessee.
(N) :
a novel by Charles Dickens.
(N) :
the first BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1853 novel of the same name.