mobile home

noun

: a dwelling structure built on a steel chassis and fitted with wheels that is intended to be hauled to a usually permanent site compare motor home

Examples of mobile home in a Sentence

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Authorities recovered the body of an approximately 60-year-old man from underneath his mobile home in Peoria on Thursday. Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024 With one of the most powerful hurricanes in a century barreling toward Florida yesterday, the Twin City mobile home park was already a scene of devastation because of Hurricane Helene. NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024 Firefighters responded to a report of a fire at a mobile home park in Northwest Dallas at about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, according to the statement. Nicole Acosta, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024 The school’s rodeo grounds are pocked with prairie dog holes, and roads to the mobile home park and hogans that house employees are mostly unpaved. Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mobile home 

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mobile home was in 1934

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“Mobile home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mobile%20home. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

Kids Definition

mobile home

noun
: a trailer that is used as a dwelling at a permanent site

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