forever house
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A house in which one settles with the expectation of living there for the rest of one's life.
Example Sentences
- "I was managing editor of the newspaper in my home town in Missouri — the place where my lifelong friends and my parents lived, where my kids could walk to the neighborhood school, where I had built what I thought was my forever house, where the golf course on which I played forgave my scattergun shots."
- "The property, nothing but a ruined skeleton of a house and overgrown fields, had come on the market while they were still in college, but Ben had immediately pictured his forever house located there."
- "Truthfully, this wasn't her forever house. She didn't want to raise her children here."
- "Her neighbor Betty, a retired corporate executive, takes a retirement package in her mid-fifties to invest in her forever house and lives on a strict budget to make her pension last for thirty years or more."