tract house

noun

: any of many similarly designed houses built on a tract of land

Examples of tract house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024 RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor. Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024 But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years. San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for tract house 

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Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tract house was in 1956

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“Tract house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tract%20house. Accessed 24 Sep. 2024.

Kids Definition

tract house

noun
: a house that is one of a number of very similar houses built on a tract of land

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