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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For eight years, a then-fashionably mustached Thomas Magnum, played by Tom Selleck, drove his red sidekick through 162 episodes, ensuring that the Prancing Horse was top of mind everywhere from New York penthouses to double-wide mobile homes across America. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2025 The order also included measures to ease the placement of temporary trailers, manufactured homes and recreational vehicles on private properties during rebuilding, while also suspending fees for mobile home parks for the next three years. Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025 This also applies to the owners and operators of mobile home parks, special occupancy parks and other similar facilities. Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025 In the Palisades Bowl neighborhood, a distraught resident named Shaun went Thursday to assess damage to his residence in the waterfront mobile home park. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 9 Jan. 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 6 Feb. 2025.

Kids Definition

mobile home

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

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