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*'''Cabin''': a small simple wooden house in the mountains or in a forest. (un chalet, une hutte, une case). *'''Cabin''': a small simple wooden house in the mountains or in a forest. (un chalet, une hutte, une case).
*'''Chalet''': a wooden house built in a mountain area, especially in Switzerland. Its roof usually has steep sides. *'''Chalet''': a wooden house built in a mountain area, especially in Switzerland. Its roof usually has steep sides.
-*'''Condo'''or '''Condominium''': a building that contains several flats, each of which is owned by the people who live there.+*'''Condo''' or '''Condominium''': a building that contains several flats, each of which is owned by the people who live there.
*'''Cottage''': a small house, usually in a village or the countryside. *'''Cottage''': a small house, usually in a village or the countryside.

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  • apartment block ou apartment building :a block of flats.

B

  • Back-to-back: a type of house built in British industrial cities in the 19th century, with a row of houses all joined together, and the walls of one row very close to the walls of the next row.
  • bedsitter (bedsit : UK) : a combination bedroom and sitting -room.
  • boarding house: a house in which people pay to live as guests with the family who owns it (une pension de famille).
  • Bungalow: a (small) house that is all on one level.

C

  • Cabin: a small simple wooden house in the mountains or in a forest. (un chalet, une hutte, une case).
  • Chalet: a wooden house built in a mountain area, especially in Switzerland. Its roof usually has steep sides.
  • Condo or Condominium: a building that contains several flats, each of which is owned by the people who live there.
  • Cottage: a small house, usually in a village or the countryside.

D

  • Dacha: a house in the countryside in Russia that someone lives in at weekends or during holidays.
  • Dorm: a dormitory.
  • Duplex: a semi-detached house, a house divided into two separate living units with separate entrances.
  • Dwelling: a house, flat, or other shelter in which someone lives.

G

  • Grange: a large country house with farm buildings near it.
  • Guest house: a small house for guests on the property of a larger house. Also a boarding house.

H

  • Habitation: a house
  • Hacienda: a large estate in Spanish-speaking country, and often, the house of the owner on such an estate.
  • Haveli: a large impressive house in India and Pakistan.
  • Hostel: a building where people can stay and get meals if they have no home or have been forced to leave their home (un foyer), a building where people living away from home can stay and get meals at low prices (un type d'auberges de jeunesse ou d'hôtel à bas coût).
  • House: a building for living in, usually where only one family lives.
  • Housing: buildings for people to live in. A type of housing : un type de logement.
  • Housing estate : lotissement.
  • Hovel : a small , msierable dwelling (un bouge, une cahute, un taudis)

L

  • Lodge: a small house built on land belonging to a large house. A hunting lodge : un pavillon de chasse.
  • Love nest: a house or flat where two people go to be together, especially if they are having a secret love affair. More generally, a place for making love.

M

  • Manor: a large house with a lot of land and small buildings around it.
  • Mansion: a large house, especially a beautiful one.
  • mobile home: a house built in a factory and moved to a piece of land on a truck = a trailer (US).

N

  • Newbuild: a house that has recently been built

O

  • Orphanage: a building where orphans live and are looked after

P

  • Palace: a very large building, especially one used as the official home of a royal family, president, or important religious leader.
  • Pied-à-terre: a small flat or house, especially in a city, that someone owns or rents in addition to their main house.
  • Place: a house, flat etc for living in.

R

  • ranch house: a house on one level, often with a roof that does not slope much,the main house on a ranch.
  • reception centre: a building in which people who have arrived in a country and have no home, or who have had to leave their home, stay temporarily until someone in authority decides where they will go.

S

  • safe house: a building that is used for hiding people or protecting them from danger.
  • Semi: a semi-detached house is joined to another house by one wall that they share.
  • Shelter: a temporary place to live for people who do not have their own homes, or for animals who have been treated in a cruel way.
  • Skyscraper : a very tall building of many storeys / stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
  • Slum: a run-down, overcrowded place in a very deprived area.
  • stately home: a large house in the UK that belongs, or used to belong, to an important family.
  • 'storey house': a house that has more than one level.
  • summer house: a house, especially in the mountains or near the sea, that is used for summer holidays. A vacation house.

T

  • terraced house: a house in a row of similar houses joined together on both sides. The American word is row house.
  • Timeshare: a flat or house that you buy with other people so that you can each use it for a particular amount of time every year;Timesharing: the practice of owning a timeshare
  • town house:an expensive house near the main part of a town or city.

W

  • Workhouse: in the 19th century, a building where poor people in Britain were sent to live and were given unpleasant work to do. Synonnym of a poorhouse.