trailer homes

Prefabricated portable residences

Trailer homes are prefabricated dwellings designed to be transported on wheels, though most remain permanently stationed once placed.

Also called mobile homes or manufactured homes—the latter being the official term that avoids class stigma.

Trailer homes are associated with rural and working-class life, and trailer park or trailer trash carry derogatory connotations: They dismissed him as trailer trash.

Opposites
construction and permanence

trailer homesbrick houses

Dwellings made from clay blocks

stone houses · log cabins · concrete homes · modular homes · prefab homes

socioeconomic status and prestige

trailer homesmansions

Large, stately houses

estates · luxury homes · McMansions · brownstones · country estates

scale and grandeur

trailer homesmansions

Large, stately houses

estates · palaces · manor houses · châteaux · plantation houses

Family

home, trailer, mobile home, house trailer

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G