mobile home

Meaning

1. 1nouncountable

   A house built in a factory and towed to a plot of land, where it usually stays and is lived in all year.

   Grammar: Countable: a mobile home, two mobile homes.

   Patterns

   • live in a mobile home

   They bought a used mobile home and placed it on a lot near the lake.

   Many retirees live in a mobile home park in Arizona.

   The storm damaged several mobile homes at the edge of town.

Word forms

Common combinations

mobile home park

Rent at the mobile home park includes water and trash pickup.

live in a mobile home

She grew up living in a mobile home with her grandparents.

buy a mobile home

They saved for years to buy a mobile home.

double-wide mobile home

Their double-wide mobile home has three bedrooms.

Synonyms and how they differ

trailer

This is a more casual American word and can sound dismissive, while mobile home is neutral.

caravan

This British word usually means a vehicle for holidays, not a permanent home.

manufactured home

This is the official modern term and stresses factory building rather than movement.

Word family

mobile adjective

able to move or be moved easily

mobility noun

the ability to move

home noun

the place where someone lives

Commonly confused: mobile home or motor home?

Practice

Make it your own

Write a sentence using “mobile home”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.

Explore more words