travel trailer

noun

: a trailer drawn especially by an automobile and equipped for use (as while traveling) as a dwelling

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Opening with just two Airstreams, there are now seven travel trailers as well as two houses and a bunk house. Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2025 The house is permanently attached to a rolling chassis, much like a travel trailer. New Atlas, 5 Feb. 2025 The Pebble Flow is a travel trailer with a big ol' battery in its floor. Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025 Most quality propane furnaces installed in travel trailers or vans have an exhaust pipe that vents all the byproducts of combustion—including moisture (and carbon monoxide)—away from the living space. Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for travel trailer 

Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of travel trailer was in 1936

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“Travel trailer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/travel%20trailer. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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