detached house

1. 1.

   a house that stands alone

   Synonymssingle dwelling

   Broaderhouse

Questions about detached house

What does detached house mean?

detached house means "a house that stands alone".

What is another word for detached house?

Close synonyms include single dwelling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is detached house a common word?

detached house is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.