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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The flooding from the French Broad River sent two feet of water into her mobile home, destroying floors, walls and possessions, and filling the home with mold. Ames Alexander and, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2025 At least 42 people were killed, including two young brothers in North Carolina when an uprooted tree fell on their mobile home. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2025 The other two people killed — Gabrielle Pierre, 34, and Jeffery Irvin, 42 — were in a mobile home next door to the one where Young was found, Blackwell said. TIME, 17 Mar. 2025 At least two of the fatalities were in Bakersfield, Ozark County, while another person died after a mobile home was hit by storms in Butler County, on Missouri's Arkansas border, authorities told NBC News. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025 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 29 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

mobile home

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

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