Homes Vocabulary

Chimney – a hollow structure that allows the smoke from a fire inside a building to escape to the air outside.

Sentence – The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.

Bedroom – a room used for sleeping in.

Sentence – Every wall in her bedroom was covered with pin-ups of her favourite pop star.

Semi-Detached House – A house that is semi-detached is one that is joined to another similar house on only one side.

Sentence – After 1945 vast new estates, mainly of semi-detached houses, began to extend further out.

Duplex – a set of rooms for living in that are on two floors of a building.

Sentence – Functional features, applications and technics of duplex Cr plating are outlined.

Townhouse – a house that is joined to another house.

Sentence – This was in The Summerhouse , a discreetly upscale restaurant just down the street from his townhouse on the Upper East Side.

Row House – a house in a city that is joined to others like it on either side.

Sentence – Occupying a landmark row house, the inn has four bedrooms, an extensive library and a living room filled with DVDs, board games and puzzles.

Bungalow – a house that usually has only one storey (= level), sometimes with a smaller upper storey set in the roof and windows that come out from the roof.

Sentence – Ivor and Pauline were lured back to Stroud’s bungalow at Staunton, on the pretext of discussing the cash settlement.

Thatched Cottage – A thatched roof is made from straw or reeds; a thatched building has a roof that is made from straw or reeds.

Sentence – The very laborer, with his thatched cottage and narrow slip of ground, attends to their embellishment.

Mobile Home – a type of building that people live in, usually staying in one place, but able to be moved using a vehicle or sometimes its own engine.

Sentence – The couple moved a mobile home on to their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago.

Houseboat – a boat that people use as their home, often kept in one place on a river or canal.

Sentence – Global wealthy person to houseboat chase after hold in both hands, the problem also appeared.

A Block Of Flats – a large building that is divided into apartments.

Sentence – A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats.

Apartment Building – a large building that is divided into apartments.

Sentence – Gas is one of the modern conveniences the newly – built apartment building provides.

Basement – a part of a building consisting of rooms that are partly or completely below the level of the ground.

Sentence – They goaded him into entering the pitch dark basement by saying he was a coward.

Landlord – a person or organization that owns a building or an area of land and is paid by other people for the use of it.

Sentence – Their landlord has threatened to send in the bailiffs if they don’t pay their rent.

Terraced House – a house that is joined to the houses on either side of it by shared walls.

Sentence – A woman clutching the infant called at the terraced house in Albany Road, Prescot, with another woman and a man.