council house
council house noun: a house built and operated by a county council or a town council, usually of relatively low price and lived in by the working class and welfare recipients.
Noun
council house (plural council houses)
- A house built and operated by a county council or a town council, usually of relatively low price and lived in by the working class and welfare recipients.
- The modern council house, with its bathroom and electric light, is smaller than the stockbroker's villa, but it is recognizably the same kind of house, which the farm labourer’s cottage is not.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
- She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is...2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
Forms of council house
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Questions about council house
- What does council house mean?
- Council house means a house built and operated by a county council or a town council, usually of relatively low price and lived in by the working class and welfare recipients.
- What part of speech is council house?
- Council house is a noun.
- What is the plural of council house?
- The plural of council house is council houses.
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