A house or edifice that is a hall. Obsolete.

North American. A long bark-covered structure used traditionally by some Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples of northeastern North America as a…

Originally: a one-storied house (or temporary building, e.g. a summer-house), lightly built, usually with a thatched roof. In modern use: any…

(see quot. 1818.)

Originally: a country mansion or residence, together with a farm, farm-buildings, or other houses… Hence, any residence of a superior or handsome…

A house or room that resembles a box in being small, square, confined, and lacking in individual features or character. Cf. boxy, adj.2 2a 3.

A house built in a rural setting to a consciously picturesque or rustic design, typically with some decorative features such as ornate woodwork…

a small villa.

Such a set of buildings converted into accommodation for people; a row of new houses built in imitation of this; (also) a single dwelling within…

Australian (a) Any detached house. Now rare. (b) A small single-storeyed suburban house, typically one built in the 19th or early 20th century.

one of a row of usually similar houses joined by party-walls.

A small house or residence; esp. a cabin or bungalow. Later also: a residential style of guest accommodation, esp. in a holiday resort.

= 1c 1d.

a square-built house suggestive of a box; (also) a simple frame house with walls made from vertical boards.

A terraced house.

A rectangular house with mud walls and a flat roof.

a house with a moat.

(a) a house having a parlour; (b) U.S. slang an expensive type of brothel.

a house in or on a row (sense 4a).

U.S. Used attributively or absol. to designate a kind of frame-house which resembles a salt-box in shape, having two storeys at the front and one…

In Apulia in southern Italy: a small round stone house with a conical roof. Also attributive.

A tall terraced house with three or more storeys, typically of large proportions and built in a neoclassical style characteristic of the Georgian…

Chiefly North American. A house built in a style of architecture characteristic of the period when a country was under colonial rule. Cf. Dutch col…

= semi-detached, adj. n. house.

Used attributively or absol. to designate a type of compact rectangular house, usually with a steep gable roof, reminiscent of dwellings on Cape Cod…

Having the appearance or style of a bungalow or bungalows; characterized by the presence of bungalows. Also n., a bungaloid building.

A semi-detached house. colloquial.

A small ranch-style house; cf. ranch house n. (b) at ranch, n.2 compounds 2.

a solar-heated house.

U.S. A (usually single-storey) suburban house; a ranch house.

A ranch-style house; = ranch house n. (b) at ranch, n.2 compounds 2.

North American. A single-storey rectangular house with a low-pitched roof and an open plan; any house in a similar style. See also raised ranch n. at…

the rear extension of a house, containing the scullery and other functional rooms; a house built in this style.

a split-level house having floors raised half a level on one side; cf. backsplit adj. n.(b) at back-, comb._form additions.

two-up two-down n. also two-up and two-down a house with two reception rooms downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs. Also attributive or as adj. So t…

two-up two-down n. also two-up and two-down a house with two reception rooms downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs. Also attributive or as adj. So t…

A semi-detached house.

An A-frame house or tent.

Originally North American. A modern home of medium size located on a housing development.

A tri-level house.

a house joined to its neighbour by only a single room, garage, or the like.

colloquial. North American. A split-level house.

a bungalow having one or more dormer rooms.