Houses and Buildings (Page de Vocabulaire)
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- 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
- boarding house: a house in which people pay to live as guests with the family who owns it
- Bungalow: a (small) house that is all on one level
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- Cabin: a small simple wooden house in the mountains or in a forest
- Chalet: a wooden house built in a mountain area, especially in Switzerland. Its roof usually has steep sides.
- Condo: a condominium
- 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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- Dacha: a house in the countryside in Russia that someone lives in at weekends or during holidays
- Dorm: a dormitory
- Dormitory: a hall of residence
- Duplex: a semi-detached house
- Dwelling: a house, flat, or other shelter in which someone lives
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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
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- Habitation: a house
- Hacienda: the main house on a hacienda, where the owner lives
- 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
- Hostel: a building where people living away from home can stay and get meals at low prices
- House: a building for living in, usually where only one family lives
- Housing: buildings for people to live in
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- Lodge: a small house built on land belonging to a large house
- love nest: a house or flat where two people go to be together, especially if they are having a secret love affair
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- 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
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- Newbuild: a house that has recently been built
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- 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: used in the name of a palace
- 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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- ranch house: a house on one level, often with a roof that does not slope much
- ranch house: 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.
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- 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
- Slum: a house in such an area
- stately home: a large house in the UK that has an interesting history and belongs, or used to belong, to an important family
- 'storey house': a house that has more than one level
- summer house: Noun: a house, especially in the mountains or near the sea, that is used for summer holidays
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- Terrace a terraced 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
- town house:an expensive house near the main part of a town or city
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- Workhouse: in the past, a building where poor people in Britain were sent to live and were given unpleasant work to do
