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

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Boats from Congo Marine were utilized during the flooding to evacuate residents of a mobile home park on Arkansas 5. After Rock Creek in Little Rock flooded, a car floated into an Arkansas-Louisiana gas line, causing a 60-foot geyser to erupt from the surface. arkansasonline.com, 12 Oct. 2024 But as Milton bore down on Siesta Key, Twin City was still recovering from Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in the Florida Panhandle on Sept. 26 and wrecked much of the mobile home park. Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mobile home 

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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 5 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

mobile home

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

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