tract house

noun

1. a house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tract house¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

McCarthy's home in Bakersfield home is a modest, middle-class residence, a 1,571-square-foot tract house built in 1987, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, that the congressman and his wife purchased in 1996.

From Salon

Look, I understand why people wouldn’t want a high-rise apartment building jammed into the middle of a tract house development.

From Los Angeles Times

He was raised in Europe and an affluent suburb of Philadelphia; she had grown up in a Garden Grove tract house.

From Los Angeles Times

Joe’s father, an Air Force officer, bought a small tract house with mortgaged furniture; even the children’s bunk beds and the radio were on loan.

From Los Angeles Times

Every now and again, there is a lyric moment, as in a photograph of a woman seen in silhouette through the window of a tract house in Colorado Springs in 1968.

From New York Times