Lodging house: A house or other building providing living spaces.Ĥ3. Lodgings: One or more rooms rented as a living space.Ĥ2. Lodgement: A place for accommodations.Ĥ1. Hut/hutment: A small, simply constructed, and perhaps temporary living space the latter word may also refer to a collection of huts.Ĥ0. Hovel: A small, often poorly built and squalid house.ģ7-38. (Interesting side note: Houseboats are nothing new the word goes back more than 200 years.)ģ6. Some houseboats are navigable, while others are merely floating houses. Houseboat: A boat designed with a superstructure similar to that of a small house, as opposed to a cabin cruiser, which has an interior set into the hull. House trailer: A trailer large enough to serve as a permanent living space, rather than one designed for travel.ģ5. House: A place where one lives, as distinguished from a multiunit building.ģ4. Homestead: A home and its adjoining land also, in the United States, specifically a plot of 160 acres.ģ3. Home: A place where one lives, though it also has a qualitative association of the domestic dynamics as opposed to the structure in which people live.ģ0. Hermitage: A residence or vacation home in a secluded place.Ģ9. Hall: A castle (see above) later, a manor house (see below).Ģ8. Hacienda: A large estate or plantation (see below).Ģ7. Grange: A farmhouse, but generally refers to the farm itself rather than the living space.Ģ6. Farmhouse: A house on a current or onetime farm.Ģ4. 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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