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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Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2025 The package, which will be a key issue in upcoming budget negotiations between the House and Senate, also would reduce a commercial-lease tax from 2 percent to 1.25 percent, along with sales taxes on mobile home sales, electricity and games such as pinball machines. Jim Turner, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025 And a man was killed in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, when a storm knocked a tree onto a mobile home. John Bacon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025 The nonprofit planned to focus much of its planting in mobile home parks, which were some of the areas slowest to recover after the fire. Eva Tesfaye, NPR, 21 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 22 Apr. 2025.

Kids Definition

mobile home

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

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