house trailer
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈhaʊs ˈtreɪlər/
- US
:
remolque
- After searching for weeks, we finally found a comfortable house trailer to rent next to the lake.
- living in a house trailer
- new house trailer
Examples
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You could even change in Dan's house trailer.
Fiction book (1996) -
Why, out along the highway, do you see a raggedy house trailer with chickens and toys in the yard?
Fiction book (1996) -
"I lived in a house trailer until I was 14 years old.
Blog text (22) -
The property was wider than it was deep to allow the full length of the house trailer to face the street.
Fiction book (2002) -
About fifty yards to our right was a dirty white house trailer with a truck parked in front.
Fiction book (1992) -
A child's voice came from the front part of the house trailer.
Fiction book (1997) -
We then proceeded toward a set of concrete stairs installed in front of the first house trailer.
Fiction book (1999) -
She rode for two miles or more, passing house trailers and occasional new brick homes.
Fiction book (1999) -
" We can't afford anything near town, but we just got five acres near Callan and we're going to put a house trailer on it until we can build.
Fiction book (1993) -
Beside the arbor was a swamp, and from the yard of the Protestant church, I could see a house trailer on a little patch of solid ground there—an island of sorts.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
293
2.6
A small home on wheels pulled behind a car for living or sleeping
31
2.8
A vehicle you live in on holiday pulled behind a car
1
3.4
A trailer with beds and a small kitchen that people take on camping trips
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a towable vehicle equipped for living' is directly and compositionally derived from 'house' (dwelling) + 'trailer' (a towable living vehicle). This productive noun–noun compounding follows regular English word-formation patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
House trailer comes from the simple image of a small house built on wheels and used as a trailer that follows a car. Because people thought of it as a 'house' that could be 'towed', the name now means a vehicle you can live in and pull behind a car or truck.