one-room house
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house
noun
uk/haʊs/us/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofone-room house
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However, the family size (defined as those who eat from the same cooking pot) and the proportion of families living in aone-roomhousewere similar in the two groups.
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The tremendous problem of theone-roomhousehas been pointed out and emphasised.
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Why must there he only theone-roomhouse?
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There are a great many old people who ask for aone-roomhouse, provided it is properly equipped, and they like it better than anything else.
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It was originally built as aone-roomhousewith a steep stair leading to the garrett.
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Inside you can see how an 18th-century tradesman might have lived and worked with his wife and children in aone-roomhouse.
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However, in 1884, local residents built aone-roomhouseon donated land.
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The family all slept in the attic loft of theone-roomhouse.
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She declined family charity, and moved into a smallone-roomhouse.
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She declined family charity and moved into a small rentedone-roomhouse.
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The originalone-roomhousepossibly dates before 1700 and is constructed of brick.
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The missionaries built aone-roomhousethat served as a school, chapel, hospital, and living quarters.
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Singh was one of nine siblings who all lived in the family'sone-roomhouse.
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He says that there will still be a use for two-room houses, though not much use for one-room houses.
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These improvements will not be applicable to one-room houses, and they may not be applicable to two-room houses.
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All he is doing is to make it easier for the owners of these one-room houses to increase rents still further.
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They consist either of simple one-room houses made of wattle and daub, or log-built.
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