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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

Origin of dwelling house

From dwelling + house.

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. dweller
  2. dwellers
  3. dwellest
  4. dwelleth
  5. dwelling
  6. dwelling house
  7. dwelling houses
  8. dwelling place
  9. dwelling places
  10. dwelling upon
  11. dwelling-house

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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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