A PLACE TO LIVE IN 1

DORMITORY,APARTMENT,  BOARDING HOUSE etc

HOUSE AND ITS ROOMS

We know people live in different buildings. These buildings are well known by us as a house. In English there are many kinds of house in which people live in. here we are going to find some kinds of house.


Deny and Malik are roommate.

Deny :  Do you plan to move to a DORMITORY
             next semester ?
Malik : No, I plan to move to an APARTMENT day 
             after tomorrow.
Deny  : I am going to move to a BOARDING HOUSE,
             a room in a PRIVATE HOME, and a CO-OP 
Malik : What is a boarding house >
Deny  : It's like a restaurant. you just eat there.
Malik : Where do we sleep ?
Deny  : We usually sleep in a ROOMING HOUSE
              or in a room in a private home.
Malik : How is a Co-op different ?
Deny  : A Co-op is like a dormitory, we eat and sleep
             there. It's not very expensive because everybody 
             washes dishes by himself and works..


     
Dormitory
 Webster Merriam Dictionary defines Dormitory :
1. a room for sleeping, especially a large room containing numerous beds.
2. a residence hall providing rooms for individuals or for groups usually 
    without private baths
3. chiefly British: a residential community inhabited chiefly by commuters

dormitory

 BrE /ˈdɔː(r)mɪtri/
AmE  /ˈdɔrmɪˌtɔri/
Synonym of dormitory : sleeping quarters, dorm room

  

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Apartment
 Webster Merriam Dictionary defines Apartment :
1. a room or set of rooms fitted especially with housekeeping facilities and 
    usually leased as a dwelling.
2. a building containing several individual apartments
BrE /əˈpɑː(r)tmənt/
AmE  /əˈpɑrtmənt/

Synonym of apartment : flat, pent house   

 

Boarding House 

Webster Merriam Dictionary defines Boarding Houses :
 A house at which people are given meals and often a place to live
BrE /ˈbɔːdɪŋ haʊs/
AmE /ˈbɔːrdɪŋ haʊs

Private Homes
Phorio Standards defines Private Home :
Places where persons, families, or small self-formed groups live independently. Occupies of these spaces have full expectation of general privacy as well as general control over their ling spaces whether or not they own them.

Co-op
 Dictionary com defines Co-op :
a cooperative store,dwelling.

Example : Unified Saint John Housing Co-op in Canada
CHF Canada's Annual Meeting includes the biggest co‑op housing education 


Rooming House 

Collins English Dictionary defines Rooming House
A building that is divided into small flats or single rooms which people rent to live in. 
In US it is a house with furnished rooms for rent

BrE /ˈruː.mɪŋ ˌhaʊs/
AmE /ˈruː.mɪŋ ˌhaʊs

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