dwelling house

A form of dwellinghouse — A house intended as a residential building (and not, for example, as a place of business).

Meanings

noundwelling house (plural dwelling houses)

plural dwelling houses

  1. 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 836
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    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

Broader
housinglodgingliving accommodations

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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