pile dwelling

1. 1.

   dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages

   Synonymslake dwelling

   Broaderdwelling

Questions about pile dwelling

What does pile dwelling mean?

pile dwelling means "dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages".

What is another word for pile dwelling?

Close synonyms include lake 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 pile dwelling a common word?

pile dwelling 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.