mobile home
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈmoʊbəl hoʊm/
:
casa móvil
- After the storm, many families found shelter in their mobile homes until the damage was repaired.
- mobile home park
I've lived in a mobile home, I've lived in Beverly Hills.
- I've lived in a mobile home, I've lived in Beverly Hills.
- They carry bags of this expired meat and foods back to their mobile home and that's what they ate.
- There's this mobile home in the back of that field and there were two cars there.
- I was in a mobile home in Clayton, NC, and I did not have a job.
- So number one of the unusual investment vehicles or investment properties are mobile homes.
Examples
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Bob himself had grown up near Bellingham, in a double-wide mobile home owned by an aunt.
Fiction book (1996) -
I took out a second mortgage on my mobile home.
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Then it became a mobile home and that became a home that you live in all year round.
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Be the first in the valley to have your very own mobile home!
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Many lower and even mid level employees live in mobile home parks.
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Haven't you ever seen a mobile home before?
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I ended up in a mobile home they have parked in the woods off the interstate.
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Stanley had invited us to his mobile home to celebrate the brace coming off.
Fiction book (1997) -
When in the area, Tommy lives in a mobile home parked on his brother's driveway.
Blog text (15) -
Pre-dawn light silhouettes a dozen weather-beaten mobile homes set off Route 29.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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2.6
A small home on wheels pulled behind a car for living or sleeping
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2.8
A home on wheels that you tow behind a car
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3.3
A large house made in a factory and moved to a site for permanent living
How Mobile
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a residence that is movable or transportable' is directly and compositionally derived from 'mobile' (movable) + 'home' (residence). This is a straightforward adjective+noun construction found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the basic concept even if they might not know technical details like prefabrication.
Etymology
The name mobile home comes from the idea of a mobile or moving home that people could tow on wheels to a new place. That's why today mobile home means a house made to be moved and then used as a long-term 'home'.