dwelling house
- noun
- /ˈdwɛlɪŋ haʊs/
:
vivienda
- Each dwelling house has a small garden where residents can grow their own vegetables.
Examples
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The porch is truly the front area attached to the dwelling house or building.
Blog text (2) -
A dozen dwelling houses, a warehouse, two inns.
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Imbaba is a working-class district, parts of it a crumbling shantytown of wooden and concrete dwelling houses near the banks of the Nile.
Fiction book (2000) -
Within two years of their founding of Friendship Estate, Bartlet and Campbell's twenty-one slaves had constructed a small dwelling house, seven Negro houses, and had cleared forty acres of land.
Academic text (2004) -
After years of saving, they finally bought a cozy dwelling house where they could raise their family.
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The local authority is building new apartments, but they always prioritize maintaining existing dwelling houses for the community.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A place where someone lives and feels they belong
253
2.5
A house or other place where someone lives
98
1.2
A large building with many separate homes where people live
65
2.9
A house or apartment where someone lives
47
2.0
A house that shares walls with other houses in a row, often in a city
29
2.5
A large house made in a factory that can be moved and has water and electricity
26
5.8
A place where someone lives, like a house
10
2.0
A building with many separate homes where different people live
9
7.6
The place where a person lives permanently for legal and tax purposes
7
3.7
A house where people rent single rooms and share bathrooms or a kitchen
7
2.8
A building on a college campus where students live
5
5.8
A long shared house where many family members live and meet
4
5.1
A place where a person or animal lives
4
4.8
A house where people pay to live and get meals
4
3.2
A house that shares walls with neighbors and has its own entrance
1
3.0
A house in a row that shares walls with neighbours
1
8.0
A house built into the side of a cliff on a natural ledge, often of stone and mud
1
2.5
A house that stands alone and is not attached to other houses
1
3.3
A large house made in a factory and moved to a site for permanent living
1
3.6
A house that rents rooms to people for short or long stays
A house that stands alone and is not attached to other houses
A small home on two floors with its own entrance often inside a larger building
A house built on wooden or stone posts that stands above water
A house or group of houses built on wooden posts at the edge of a lake long ago
Antonyms
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from the constituents: both 'dwelling' and 'house' denote places where people live, so 'dwelling house' simply specifies a residential building. This compositional, redundant noun-noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns for expressing residence and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Dwelling house comes from the words dwell, meaning 'to live', and house, meaning a building, so it literally names a building where people live. That's why the term is used to mean a 'home' rather than a shop or factory.