homeowner

CEFRC1

/hˈoʊˌmoʊnər/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who owns the home where they live.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Someone who does not have the title to a house, but has possession and is paying for it in installments.

Examples

  • A bad landlord makes his tenant a homeowner.

  • The angry homeowner wanted his house repainted.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning
  1. Someone who owns a house.

More examples

In context
  • She's a homeowner, recently got married.

  • He advised homeowners to get insurance before then so they can be grandfathered in as discretionary buyers of flood insurance in a nonflood zone.

  • The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The skilled blank fixed the leaky roof himself last weekend.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From home + owner.