Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wartime house

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English

Syllables: wartime -house
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.

Canadian usage

Example Sentences

"Using funds from the sale of their wartime house in Montreal, they purchased a handsome old log house on seven acres of white sand beach in the then still-active fishing community of Port Joli."
"On average, a four-room wartime house cost $2,700, and a six-room $3,400. The homes were a hot commodity."
"The house that inspired this prayer is a small wartime house in a working-class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta."
"Originally, a tiny wartime house sat on the corner lot facing on Dunsmure St."
"If you were driving from Saskatoon to Vanscoy early this morning, you may have seen a wartime house from Spadina Crescent rolling down the highway."

Usage

Canadian usage

Inflected Forms

wartime houses (plural)

Questions

What does wartime house mean?: Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.

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