► housea)a building that you live in and is intended to be used by one family: My parents just bought a five-bedroom house.b)all the people who live in a house: Be quiet or you’ll wake the whole house!
► apartment a set of rooms, usually to rent, that is part of a bigger building: How much does it cost to rent a three-bedroom apartment?
► condominium/condo one apartment in a building with several apartments, each of which is owned by the people living in it: We bought a condo on Cape Cod, and we spend most of the summer there.
► duplex a house that is divided into two separate homes: They own the duplex they live in and rent out the other half.
► townhouse a house in a group of houses that share one or more walls: The development has really nice townhouses in clusters of three or four.
► mansion a very large expensive house: She lives in a huge mansion in Beverly Hills.
► mobile/manufactured home (also trailer) a type of house that can be pulled by a large vehicle and moved to another place: After we got married we lived in a mobile home until we could afford a house.
► cottage a small house outside a city, especially one used for vacations: They spend their summers at their cottage on the lake.
► cabin a small house made of wood, usually in a forest or the mountains: The early settlers built log cabins in the woods.
► hut a small simple house or building with only one or two rooms, especially in poorer parts of the world: Each family in the tribe has its own hut.
► shack a small house that has not been built very well: The poorest people live in shacks made of pieces of wood, sheets of metal, and cardboard.