dwellinghouse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   formal or legal: a building, or part of one, used as a private residence

   The deed described the dwellinghouse and the land behind it.

A compound of dwelling + house. Although both elements refer to habitation, dwelling specifies the building's residential use; the closed and hyphenated forms survive especially in legal and historical writing.

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