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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Get out of mobile homes that can blow over in high winds. Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025 More big stories Mayor Bass ousts L.A. fire chief, saying LAFD needs ‘new leadership.’ Real estate losses from fires top $30 billion, from old mobile homes to $23-million mansions. Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2025 Another violent storm produced a rare tornado that struck a mobile home park in Oxnard, California, Thursday, Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist with the NWS confirmed to CNN affiliate KABC. Hanna Park and Mary Gilbert, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025 Footage shared by local Fox affiliate WBRC shows sheriff's vehicles parked outside of a mobile home where the attack reportedly took place. Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 8 Feb. 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 14 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

mobile home

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

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