tract house

noun

Definition of tract housenext
as in ranch house

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Recent Examples of tract house RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor. — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024 But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023 Depending on the location, the cost for a ranch tract house with a garage in the suburbs was within a middle-class family’s reach. — Jeastman, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for tract house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tract house
  1. ranch house
  2. town house
  3. manor house
  4. ranch
  5. cottage
Noun
  • On Wednesday, the city council unanimously approved a vision plan to restore a ranch house that's nearly 150 years old.
    — James Taylor, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The property includes the Fiddyment family’s ranch house, a brick cooler and smokehouse dating to about 1880, a garage built around 1950 and historic landscaping.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of ranch house
Noun
  • Developer Jib Felter of AAG Farms, LLC wants to build 44 town house units and retail space for multiple tenants at the northeast corner of 133rd Street and Black Bob Road.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The five-story, 92,000-square-foot NoHo town house, which dates to the early 19th century, has been in the hands of the artist and his foundation since 1965.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of town house
Noun
  • The property’s manor house, once a Goddard College library and event space, now serves as a rehearsal space for the Goddard Institute of Dramatic Arts.
    — Olivia Fletcher, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Guests can stay at a suite in the 18-bedroom main manor house, the cozier 11-bedroom Garden House, or one of the property’s individual suites.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of manor house
Noun
  • Pollard attended Culver High School and lived with an aunt and uncle in Montana while working on a cattle ranch, then helped out his dad on movie sets.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Outside of music, Beard owned and operated a ranch in Richmond, Texas, and maintained a love of golfing and car racing.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of ranch
Noun
  • Instead of an ill-fitting concrete tower, the 185-room, adults-only property blends into the landscape as a series of standalone Caribbean-sytle cottages scattered across 30 acres of gorgeous coastline.
    — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Once a private family estate, the property is now a collection of guest suites and cottages.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of cottage

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