Meanings
plural dwelling houses
- alternativeAlternative form of dwellinghouse.
The rooms on the ground floor are used for the Goods Agent and a coal order office, and the remainder of the building is a dwelling house.
1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 8361 more example
The 1955 Act gave powers for compulsory acquisition of "easements", or permission to tunnel beneath dwelling houses instead of, as had previously been necessary, following approximately the course of surface roads.
1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 258
Synonyms & antonyms
nounhousing that someone is living in
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Cite this entry
dwelling house. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dwelling%20house
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