mobile home

English

Noun

mobile home (plural mobile homes)

1. A prefabricated home built in a factory, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where it will be occupied.

   Synonyms: (US) doublewide, house trailer, trailer home, trailer, manufactured home

Usage notes

• This term contrasts with motor home, which is a vehicle meant to be a mobile, temporary residence, often for camping or vacationing. Mobile homes are generally moved to a permanent or semi-permanent location and then meant to be a long-term, fixed-location residence.

Translations

prefabricated home

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 移動住房／移动住房 (yídòngzhùfáng), 拖車房／拖车房 (tuōchēfáng)

• Dutch: stacaravan (nl) m
• Finnish: siirrettävä talo
• French: maison mobile (fr) f, mobile home (fr)
• Polish: dom na kółkach m, dom mobilny m

See also

• trailer

Further reading

• “mobile home”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “mobile home”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “mobile home”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “mobile home”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.