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*'''oast house''' : séchoir à houblon. | *'''oast house''' : séchoir à houblon. | ||
- | *'''Orphanage''': a building where orphans live and are looked after | + | *'''orphanage''': a building where orphans live and are looked after |
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- | *'''Palace''': a very large building, especially one used as the official home of a royal family, president, or important religious leader. | + | *'''palace''': a very large building, especially one used as the official home of a royal family, president, or important religious leader. |
*'''penthouse''': an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls. Un apartement en terrasse. | *'''penthouse''': an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls. Un apartement en terrasse. | ||
- | *'''Pied-à-terre''': a small flat or house, especially in a city, that someone owns or rents in addition to their main house. | + | *'''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. | + | *'''place''': a house, flat etc for living in. |
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*'''stately home''': a large house in the UK that belongs, or used to belong, to an important family. | *'''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. | *'''storey house''': a house that has more than one level. | ||
+ | *'''student acccomodation''' , '''student digs'''(familiar): logement étudiant. | ||
*'''summer house''': a house, especially in the mountains or near the sea, that is used for summer holidays. A vacation house. | *'''summer house''': a house, especially in the mountains or near the sea, that is used for summer holidays. A vacation house. | ||
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*'''tepee:''' a conical tent of the Native American Indians. | *'''tepee:''' a conical tent of the Native American Indians. | ||
*'''terraced house''': a house in a row of similar houses joined together on both sides. The American word is row house. | *'''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 | + | *'''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. | *'''town house''':an expensive house near the main part of a town or city. | ||
*'''tract house''' : one of numerous houses of similar or complementary design constructed on a tract of land | *'''tract house''' : one of numerous houses of similar or complementary design constructed on a tract of land | ||
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*'''wickiup''' : (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats. | *'''wickiup''' : (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats. | ||
*'''wigwam''' : a round tent of the Native American Indians.. | *'''wigwam''' : a round tent of the Native American Indians.. | ||
- | *'''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'''. | + | *'''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'''. |
*'''yurt''' : a tentlike dwelling of the Mongol peoples of central Asia, | *'''yurt''' : a tentlike dwelling of the Mongol peoples of central Asia, | ||
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- adobe (house) : maison/case en pisé, en terre.
- apartment block ou apartment building :a block of flats.
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- 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.
- barracks : caserne
- 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 = a rooming house (US)= une pension de famille.
- brownstone (US): a house made of red-brown sandstone, especially one built in the cities of the eastern U.S. (New York, Boston, Chicago )in the nineteenth century.
- bungalow: a (small) house that is all on one level.
- bunkhouse : a hostel.
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C
- cabin: a small simple wooden house in the mountains or in a forest. (un chalet, une hutte, une case).
- carport (US): a roofed, wall-less shed, usually projecting from the side of a building, used as a shelter for an automobile.
- 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.
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D
- dacha: a house in the countryside in Russia that someone lives in at weekends or during holidays.
- dorm: a dormitory, a students' hall (of residence).
- duplex(US): 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.
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- earth-sheltered building : habitat semi-enterré.
- efficicency apartment : a small flat or bedsit.
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- 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.
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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 private mansion 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).
- houseboat: péniche (où on habite).
- housing: buildings for people to live in. A type of housing : un type de logement.
- housing estate (UK) / housing development (US)/ a housing project : lotissement.
- hovel : a small , msierable dwelling (un bouge, une cahute, un taudis)
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- 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.
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- maiso(n)nette : an apartment, usually of two floors connected by an internal staircase; duplex apartment.
- 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).
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- new build: a house that has recently been built.
- nursing home : a care home, a rest home (une maison de repos/ de convalescence).
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- oast house : séchoir à houblon.
- orphanage: a building where orphans live and are looked after
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- palace: a very large building, especially one used as the official home of a royal family, president, or important religious leader.
- penthouse: an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls. Un apartement en terrasse.
- 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.
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- rambler : a one-story house in a suburb (US).
- 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.
- rectory : vicarage : priest's house (presbytère).
- retirement home: maison de retraite.
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- safe house: a building that is used for hiding people or protecting them from danger.
- saltbox (US):
- 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.
- split-level house
- 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.
- student acccomodation , student digs(familiar): logement étudiant.
- summer house: a house, especially in the mountains or near the sea, that is used for summer holidays. A vacation house.
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- tepee: a conical tent of the Native American Indians.
- 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.
- tract house : one of numerous houses of similar or complementary design constructed on a tract of land
- treehouse : platform or building constructed in a tree.
- unit, a home unit : (New Zealand, Australia) : a flat.
- vacation house
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- wickiup : (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
- wigwam : a round tent of the Native American Indians..
- 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.
- yurt : a tentlike dwelling of the Mongol peoples of central Asia,