tract house
3
4.8
- noun
- /trækt haʊs/
- US
:
casa de desarrollo
- The family moved into a new tract house surrounded by other homes with similar designs.
- row of tract houses
- suburban tract house
- neighborhood of tract houses
Examples
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It's a suburban area with over 1.7 million people, known for wide boulevards, tract houses, and shopping malls that gave rise to the infamous "Valley Girl."
Blog text (22) -
The neighborhoods along the ship channel are poor and neglected, mostly small tract houses rented by servicemen or Vietnamese shrimpers or families who cannot afford anything better.
Fiction book (2001) -
I drove him out to the small tract house that was his family's home.
Fiction book (1995) -
She lived in a tract house on cleared land.
Fiction book (2002) -
There was a tract house near her mother, still with a gravel drive and a yard filled with old cars and junk.
Fiction book (2002) -
The New York skyline behind him across the Hudson, David jumps off his bike and races towards a row of tract houses.
Fiction book (1996) -
Condos crowd the water's edge, behind them row on row of tract houses, each with its fenced-in backyard.
Fiction book (1991) -
Donnato's house is one of a hundred in some new development, tract houses of the nineties with round windows that are supposed to make them look interesting.
Fiction book (1994) -
Sure, it sounds nice and all—big tract houses, gas central heating, indoor plumbing, and all that.
Fiction book (1995) -
The twin skyscrapers frame endless rows of little tract houses stretching to the distant volcanic ridge.
Fiction book (1994)
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'tract' (a continuous area of land) + 'house' (a dwelling): a house located on or belonging to a tract of land, typically one of a group. This noun–noun composition follows common compounding patterns and the notion of houses in a development is cross-linguistically expressible, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should grasp the sense.
Etymology
Tract house comes from building many similar houses on one large tract of land. So, it means 'a house that is one of many with the same design built together'.