Henhouse was my first guess, and no idea why it shouldn't be accepted. From Wiktionary.org: "henhouse - a small house or hutch for chickens, or, more specifically, for hens to live in." Synonyms, chicken coop, hencoop. From Oxforddictionaries.com - definition of henhouse: "A small shed for keeping poultry in."
Around here (northeast USA) we never call it a duplex -- it's a twin, or twin house. And in Britain it's a semi-detached house. I'd suggest you accept those too.
Im completely with Nyneve922 here. Here in NYC a duplex is a two-story apartment or home, but not two separate homes. That would just be a multi-family house. Ive also heard "mother-daughter" used to describe that, but never "duplex"
No, semi-detached houses are two houses attached side-by-side, a peculiarly British phenomenon (one which makes no sense to me at all, though I now live in one myself). Duplexes (in this sense) are what might in the UK also be called maisonettes - a single house divided into two halves, each of which might cover two storeys.
I believe the most common usage of the word duplex is two apartments on top of eachother, and side by side has various names, semi-detached, twins. In my country they are called two-under-one-roof, loosely translated
"In New England, certain other parts of the United States, and occasionally in Canada, this style is colloquially called a duplex. Elsewhere, however, "duplex" refers to a building split into two flats/apartments, one above the other"
It does not say how it is split though, horizontally or vertically. But I too was thinking of the English word to mean semi detached (I believe we have a french term for it aswell.. but can only think of lits-jumeaux haha)
Agree with Nyneve922. I'm in Columbus, and although duplex is sometimes used, it's more common to hear them referred to as 'doubles', or 'twin singles'.
Ander217 you should be glad. They build them all the time around here-knock down a nice 1600 sq. foot house with a nice yard to one wall--then rebuild it to 3000 sq. feet out to the easements. You're not missing anything.
They did that all over Santa Monica, starting in the 1970s...building a brand new home required all sorts of permits and fees, but they could buy a darling little 2 or 3 bedroom home with a pretty yard and lots of sunlight and fresh air, rip down all but a single wall and portion of the foundation, and it did not qualify as a new building, just a remodel. Then they would build it out to every edge of the lot! Their neighbors lost any view from upper windows, all sunlight except a sliver in the front, and all breezes. Ruined property values. Stuck out like big white stucco sore thumbs in neighborhoods of beautiful old spanish bungalows with shade trees and sloping lawns. But they sold for a million instead of a quarter that. They also filled lots with condo buildings 4-5 stories, cars everywhere...
And, as cyninoregon touched on, McMansions are usually pretty tacky and ostentatious-looking – think big ionic entry columns on some Greek Revival monstrosity. Unless of course every other house on the street is already Greek Revival, and then you can count on the new McMansion to be a truly epic example of Brutalism or some other hideous style of architecture. We used to call them McStains upon the McLandscape.
It's a TV show on MTV or VH1....celebrities take audiences on a tour of their "cribs." Show you all the bad taste money can buy. Giant closets full of designer stuff and jewelry....jacuzzis in the bathroom, bowling alleys and basketball courts in the basement, and room for a fleet of Bentleys, Porsches, etc. It's the decline and fall of American/World civilization--when you think of what a hard-working family has to live on. I was reading the net worth of celebrities on-line the other day---poor ones have "only" $15 million, many have hundreds of millions. The actor who played "House" was paid $700,000 for each episode--more than many earn in a lifetime. It's so wrong while people die of no medical care and children grow up on the streets. A Walton heir has $45 Billion, as does Warren Buffet--they can't spend it if they tried. The money is out of circulation, in a way it wouldn't be if many people shared it, raising wages, etc...it just makes me crazy. Sorry to be a downer.
Semi-detached share a wall with one person, semi-attached is attached only at the garage and a duplex is split level so there is 2 entrances and one leads upstairs and the other downstairs hopes this makes sense.
Not here. My duplex is a single story. There is a flip side, mirror image I rent out. "Duplex" merely meand 2, "triplex" means 3 and then call 4 a "quad" for short. It's a way to build 2 homes with garages, yards, all the amenities with one set of building fees, one tax and water bill, one fee for maintenance (lawn mowing). But you have the feel of a home, not 2 story buildings. In my neighborhood, the 2 story townhouse versions just don't rent--people don't like the heat going upstairs yet they can't cool the bedrooms in summer. And they hate yelling down the stairs to family members. Even the apartments are built 4 in a row...attached on the sides, with garages in between, decks out back, views into the woods, no one looking in their windows, privacy. On the other hand, in So Calif, everyone loved townhouses, a chance to have a view toward the canyons or the beach/bay. Not enough property and too many people to build single story units.
The Mongolians use the word "Ger", not Yurt (which is from the Russian; Russia ran the place for years). I'd say "Ger" should be the answer, with "Yurt" accepted.
I knew it from the film, "Algiers". "Come weeth me to ze Casbah" - actually that line was only spoken in the trailer and not the actual movie. Another trivia point from that movie - some believe the cartoon skunk Pepe le Pew was based on Charles Boyer's character, Pepe le Moko.
A rustic vacation home in New Zealand is called a bach (pronounced batch) in the North Island and a crib in the South Island. As far as I know that is the only word difference between North and South Island English - and, judging by this quiz, they are both different from everywhere else!.
A duplex, in the Northeastern US in any case, is one apartment separated into two levels (or stories), with the lower level usually containing the kitchen, dining room, living and/or family rooms,
and perhaps an extra bedroom and the upper level containing the master bedroom/bath, and additional bedrooms and bath(s)..
The Native Americans that I studied at school in the UK lived in wigwams but the pictures looked like tents not huts. I assumed they were the same thing as teepees.
some cottages like that one are in the sense of a smaller residence attached to a much larger house/estate. The general idea of a cottage is a small house in the countryside, the connection being that a long time ago such houses would be in a bigger area which would have once been part of a big estate.
Some more ideas, bungalow, (love)shack, studio (not sure if that one is english) loft, chateaux. And ofcourse.. a treehouse !
ps not sure about the bear and rooster being here, they could star in their own seperate quiz :) (im fine with it though, but why put them here when they can have their own ;)) they can join me in my treehouse haha
Although...I did hear some Turks explaining the origin of the name of the Istanbul suburb Yesilyurt one time...they said it meant something like "grassy place of temporary shelters," so maybe the Russians got "yurt" from the Turks?
"In New England, certain other parts of the United States, and occasionally in Canada, this style is colloquially called a duplex. Elsewhere, however, "duplex" refers to a building split into two flats/apartments, one above the other"
semi-detached for #4
terraced house for #6
caravan for #28
We're not all American you know!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hizzle
and perhaps an extra bedroom and the upper level containing the master bedroom/bath, and additional bedrooms and bath(s)..
ps not sure about the bear and rooster being here, they could star in their own seperate quiz :) (im fine with it though, but why put them here when they can have their own ;)) they can join me in my treehouse haha