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dwelling-house

dwelling-house is the alternative form of dwellinghouse.

Meaning of dwellinghouse

Noun

dwellinghouse (plural dwellinghouses)

  1. A house intended as a residential building (and not, for example, as a place of business).

Forms of dwelling-house

pluraldwelling-houses

Questions about dwelling-house

What is dwelling-house the alternative form of?
Dwelling-house is the alternative form of dwellinghouse.

Words near dwelling-house in the dictionary

  1. dwelling house
  2. dwelling houses
  3. dwelling place
  4. dwelling places
  5. dwelling upon
  6. dwelling-house
  7. dwelling-houses
  8. dwelling-place
  9. dwelling-places
  10. dwellinghouse
  11. dwellinghouses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dwelling-house (page history and authors); dwellinghouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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