dwelling house

See also: dwellinghouse and dwelling-house

English

Etymology

From dwelling +‎ house.

Noun

dwelling house (plural dwelling houses)

1. Alternative form of dwellinghouse.
   • 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 836:

     The rooms on the ground floor are used for the Goods Agent and a coal order office, and the remainder of the building is a dwelling house.

   • 1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 258:

     The 1955 Act gave powers for compulsory acquisition of "easements", or permission to tunnel beneath dwelling houses instead of, as had previously been necessary, following approximately the course of surface roads.

References

• “dwelling house”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dwelling house”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.