tract house

noun

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

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Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023 Depending on the location, the cost for a ranch tract house with a garage in the suburbs was within a middle-class family’s reach. — Jeastman, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023 But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 In 2017, my family and I bought our house in the Palisades—a 1950s tract house on the same street as three of our friends. — Juliana Shallcross, AFAR Media, 29 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tract house

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First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tract house was in 1956

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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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