starter home

noun

A relatively small and inexpensive home, typically the first that a person or family can afford to purchase.

Similar
starter house
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounstarter home (plural starter homes)

plural starter homes

  1. A relatively small and inexpensive home, typically the first that a person or family can afford to purchase.

    Those starter homes came in all kinds over the years: mill worker’s cottages, shotgun homes, bungalows, ramblers, split-levels, two-bedroom tract homes.

    2022 September 25, “Whatever Happened to the Starter Home?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

    Synonyms: starter house

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA relatively small and inexpensive home, typically the first that a person or family can afford to purchase.

Similar
starter house
Also see
starter house

Translations

Finnish ensiasunto
  • ensiasuntofirst home that one can afford
Cite this entry
APA

starter home. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/starter%20home

MLA

“starter home.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/starter%20home. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “starter home,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/starter%20home.

Source: starter home on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.