tract house

noun

: any of many similarly designed houses built on a tract of land

Examples of tract house in a Sentence

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The Netflix series Adolescence starts with a police SWAT team conducting a dawn raid on a modest tract house in the north of England. Martha Bayles, National Review, 24 July 2025 General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024 RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor. Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024 But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tract house

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tract house was in 1956

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“Tract house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tract%20house. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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tract house

noun
: a house that is one of a number of very similar houses built on a tract of land

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