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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Now, Black Mountain is asking the Fort Worth City Council to approve rezoning of an additional 119 acres for inclusion in the development, with one tract adjacent to a mobile home community on the west side of Forest Hill Drive. Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025 Their apartment was about the size of a mobile home, with a small bedroom and a long, narrow space that served as a living room, a kitchen, a play area for the kids, and a computer station for Aldo. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 Roughly 20% of the children are considered impoverished, and nearly half the dwellings are mobile homes. Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025 State lawmakers approved protections for mobile home park residents in 2019 and 2020. Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 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 1 Oct. 2025.

Kids Definition

mobile home

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

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