adobe house
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3.8
- noun
- /əˈdoʊbi haʊs/
:
casa de adobe
- My grandfather built an adobe house and farming facilities about 50 years ago, which are still in fairly good condition.
- small adobe house
- old adobe house
- two adobe houses
Examples
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The outside of the adobe house was radically different from my San Francisco apartment, but the inside was eerily similar.
Fiction book (1993) -
Through it, Ken pointed to an adobe house with a pickup truck parked outside it, in the middle of a vast plain.
Fiction book (1990) -
"I sure hope so," Madeline said as she looked at the large adobe house.
Fiction book (1993) -
I live in a large adobe house on the Jemez Indian Reservation in New Mexico, the ancient home of my people.
Fiction book (1999) -
We're neighbors only by proximity in what is not a neighborhood, but rather two small adobe houses built years ago on a dirt lane that dead-ends north into the arroyo.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ipa had visited the village with her grandmother once and remembered how the adobe houses sat high on a ridge overlooking flat fields of tall, green corn.
Fiction book (1995) -
But by midafternoon, as the villagers returned to their adobe houses from the burial field, fat drops of cool rain splattered against Ipa's face and blended with her salty tears.
Fiction book (1995) -
Villagers still live in adobe houses without electricity or running water.
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In rural areas of Latin America, adobe houses with thatched roofs are fixtures of the landscape.
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LeeAnn stopped and pointed to an adobe house with a rail fence around it.
Synonyms
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1.0
A building where one family lives
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8.4
A house made from blocks of earth and grass cut from the ground
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9.9
A house that early settlers build from blocks of earth with grass roots
A small hut made of mud and sticks that people use for shelter in the southwestern United States and Mexico
How Solid
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a house made of adobe' is directly and compositionally derived from 'adobe' (building material) + 'house' (a dwelling); it follows the common material+noun pattern. This structure is cross-linguistically transparent and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The noun adobe house comes from adobe, the sun-dried bricks made of mud and straw, and house, meaning a home. These thick walls made of sun-dried bricks stay cool in hot weather, so the phrase means 'a house built of sun-dried earth and straw'.