Word list: Places people live

dormitory noun a large building at a college or university where students

bedsit noun live
a rented room that has a bed, table, chairs, and somewhere
studio apartment noun to
ancook in it with only one room, a bathroom, and a
apartment
rowhouse noun kitchen
a housearea
that is joined to the houses on either side of it by
ranch house noun shared walls
a house, usually on only one level, with a roof that does not
split-level adjective slope much building or room has floors at slightly different
A split-level
flat noun heights.
a set of rooms for living in that are part of a larger building
detached adjective and are usually
A detached all on
house oneconnected
is not floor to any other building
semi-detached adjective A house that is semi-detached is one that is joined to
block of flats noun another similar house
a large building that is on only one
divided into side
apartments
commune noun a group of families or single people who live and work
condominium noun together sharing
an apartment possessions
building in whichand responsibilities
each apartment is owned
community noun separately
the people by theinpeople
living living in it,
one particular areabutor
also containing
people who are
neighborhood noun considered as a unit because of their common
the area of a town that surrounds someone's home, or the interests,
exurb noun people
a regionwho
beyondlive inthe
this area (= the areas built around
suburbs
suburb noun cities)
an areathat
on isthenotedge
highly developed
of a large town and
or where rich people
city where people
who work in the town or city often live