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A

• adobe (house) : maison/case en pisé, en terre.
• apartment block ou apartment building :a block of flats.

B

• back-to-back: a type of house built in British industrial cities in the 19th century, with a row of houses all joined together, and the walls of one row very close to the walls of the next row.
• barracks : caserne
• bedsitter (bedsit : UK) : a combination bedroom and sitting -room.
• boarding house: a house in which people pay to live as guests with the family who owns it = a rooming house (US)= une pension de famille.
• brownstone (US): a house made of red-brown sandstone, especially one built in the cities of the eastern U.S. (New York, Boston, Chicago )in the nineteenth century.
• bungalow: a (small) house that is all on one level.
• bunkhouse : a hostel.

C

• cabin: a small simple wooden house in the mountains or in a forest. (un chalet, une hutte, une case).
• carport (US): a roofed, wall-less shed, usually projecting from the side of a building, used as a shelter for an automobile.
• chalet: a wooden house built in a mountain area, especially in Switzerland. Its roof usually has steep sides.
• condo or Condominium: a building that contains several flats, each of which is owned by the people who live there.
• cottage: a small house, usually in a village or the countryside.

D

• dacha: a house in the countryside in Russia that someone lives in at weekends or during holidays.
• dorm: a dormitory, a students' hall (of residence).
• duplex(US): a semi-detached house, a house divided into two separate living units with separate entrances.
• dwelling: a house, flat, or other shelter in which someone lives.

E

• earth-sheltered building : habitat semi-enterré.
• efficicency apartment : a small flat or bedsit.

G

• grange: a large country house with farm buildings near it.
• guest house: a small house for guests on the property of a larger house. Also a boarding house.

H

• habitation: a house
• hacienda: a large estate in Spanish-speaking country, and often, the house of the owner on such an estate.
• haveli: a large private mansion in India and Pakistan.
• hostel: a building where people can stay and get meals if they have no home or have been forced to leave their home (un foyer), a building where people living away from home can stay and get meals at low prices (un type d'auberges de jeunesse ou d'hôtel à bas coût).
• houseboat: péniche (où on habite).
• housing: buildings for people to live in. A type of housing : un type de logement.
• housing estate (UK) / housing development (US)/ a housing project : lotissement.
• hovel : a small , msierable dwelling (un bouge, une cahute, un taudis)

L

• lodge: a small house built on land belonging to a large house. A hunting lodge : un pavillon de chasse.
• love nest: a house or flat where two people go to be together, especially if they are having a secret love affair. More generally, a place for making love.

M

• maiso(n)nette : an apartment, usually of two floors connected by an internal staircase; duplex apartment.
• manor: a large house with a lot of land and small buildings around it.
• mansion: a large house, especially a beautiful one.
• mobile home: a house built in a factory and moved to a piece of land on a truck = a trailer (US).

N

• new build: a house that has recently been built.
• nursing home : a care home, a rest home (une maison de repos/ de convalescence).

O

• oast house : séchoir à houblon.
• orphanage: a building where orphans live and are looked after

P

• palace: a very large building, especially one used as the official home of a royal family, president, or important religious leader.
• penthouse: an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls. Un apartement en terrasse.
• pied-à-terre: a small flat or house, especially in a city, that someone owns or rents in addition to their main house.
• place: a house, flat etc for living in.

R

• rambler : a one-story house in a suburb (US).
• ranch house: a house on one level, often with a roof that does not slope much, the main house on a ranch.
• reception centre: a building in which people who have arrived in a country and have no home, or who have had to leave their home, stay temporarily until someone in authority decides where they will go.
• rectory : vicarage : priest's house (presbytère).
• retirement home: maison de retraite.

S

• safe house: a building that is used for hiding people or protecting them from danger.
• saltbox (US):
• semi: a semi-detached house is joined to another house by one wall that they share.
• shelter: a temporary place to live for people who do not have their own homes, or for animals who have been treated in a cruel way.
• skyscraper : a very tall building of many storeys / stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
• slum: a run-down, overcrowded place in a very deprived area.
• split-level house
• stately home: a large house in the UK that belongs, or used to belong, to an important family.
• storey house: a house that has more than one level.
• student acccomodation , student digs(familiar): logement étudiant.
• summer house: a house, especially in the mountains or near the sea, that is used for summer holidays. A vacation house.

T-U-V

• tepee: a conical tent of the Native American Indians.
• terraced house: a house in a row of similar houses joined together on both sides. The American word is row house.
• timeshare: a flat or house that you buy with other people so that you can each use it for a particular amount of time every year;Timesharing: the practice of owning a timeshare
• town house:an expensive house near the main part of a town or city.
• tract house : one of numerous houses of similar or complementary design constructed on a tract of land
• treehouse : platform or building constructed in a tree.
• unit, a home unit : (New Zealand, Australia) : a flat.
• vacation house

W-Z

• wickiup : (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
• wigwam : a round tent of the Native American Indians..
• workhouse: in the 19th century, a building where poor people in Britain were sent to live and were given unpleasant work to do. Synonnym of a poorhouse.
• yurt : a tentlike dwelling of the Mongol peoples of central Asia,