Estate: A piece of land, generally with a large house on it.Ģ2. Duplex: A building with living spaces for two separate residents or groups of residents.Ģ1. Double-wide: A mobile home (see below) twice the standard width of a trailer.ġ9. Domicile: A formal term for any place of residence.ġ8. Digs/diggings: Originally slang referring to student lodgings, now informally referring to any living space.ġ7. Cottage: Originally, a small country house (though some cottages were and are not necessarily small), either for vacation use or permanent residence.ġ5-16. Condominium: A unit in an apartment building or a town house complex that is individually owned rather than rented.ġ3. Chateau: A large rural house also refers to a wine-country estate.ġ2.

Chalet: A characteristic type of house in Switzerland, by extension any similar house also refers to an Alpine herdsman’s hut.ġ1. Castle: Originally, a fortified structure that often served as a dwelling for a nobleman and his family and retainers, now used figuratively for a large, imposing house.ġ0. Caravan: A British English synonym for trailer (see below), in an extension of the sense of a file of vehicles, based on the original meaning of a train of pack animals.ĩ. Cabin: Originally, a small, crudely constructed one-story dwelling now, often refers to a vacation home that may be quite large and complex.ħ. Bungalow: A small one- or one-and-a-half-story house.Ħ. Boardinghouse: A house that provides room and board (a private or shared room and meals).ĥ. Billet: Quarters in a private home assigned to a member of the military order by an official order (also called a billet), or, informally, living quarters.Ĥ. Apartment: A living space consisting of one or more rooms in a building or a building complex with at least a few such units.ģ. Abode: Any living space often used jocularly in a mock-formal tone.Ģ. This list, which omits most terms of foreign origin and includes temporary and mobile living spaces, includes definitions of many such words to help writers distinguish between them:ġ. An extensive vocabulary exists to describe all the possible variations in the structures in which humans live.

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