Houses and Buildings (Page de Vocabulaire)
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A
- 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).
- 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.
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, 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.
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.
- Houseboat: péniche (où on habite).
- Housing: buildings for people to live in. A type of housing : un type de logement.
- Housing estate / housing development : 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.
- Nursing home : a care home, a rest home (une maison de repos/ de convalescence).
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
- 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.
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-Z
- 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,
