Houses

Houses

apartment: a place to live that is part of a larger building, owned by a landlord who collects monthly rent

• They will rent an apartment until they have enough money to buy a house.

cabin:
a small, roughly built house

• The family likes to stay in a cabin in the mountains in the summer.

a bedroom on a ship

• The cabins on the ship are quite small.

an inside area of an airplane

• Those airplanes have a very large passenger cabin.

condominium:
a building or group of buildings whose apartments are individually owned

• They are building a new condominium near here.

an apartment in a condominium

• As soon as he graduated he bought a condominium in the city.

cottage: a small house of one story

• His family has a cottage at the beach, where they go every summer.

house: a building designed as a place to live

• They are expecting a baby and want to move to a bigger house.

hut: a small shelter, with no amenities

• The children made a hut in the woods.

mansion: a large house

• The mayor's official residence is a beautiful mansion.

rambler: a house, bigger than a cottage, that has a number of rooms that are all on one floor.

• They are looking for a rambler, because her mother can't climb steps.

townhouse: a house built in a row of houses, with side walls connected

• Townhouses usually have a lot of steps.