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Discover LudwigThe phrase "detached house" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use it to describe a building that is not attached to any other structure, for example: "We just moved into a detached house in the country."
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detached house
noun
A free-standing, single-family dwelling unit, that does not share a common wall with any other structure.
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☐ Detached house (villa).
The investigated single family detached house in the Philippines is shown schematically in Fig. 8.
Figure 6 shows the operational mechanism of a single family detached house for a full year.
Figure 8 is the layout for a single family double storey detached house in the Philippines.
Table 1 shows the single family detached house building envelope thermal properties.
The least efficient were detached house with oil fuelled heating system.
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"It is like a semi-detached house.
Mr Badawi likes to compare the two countries to a semi-detached house.
I was brought up in a small semi-detached house on a council estate in Slough.
Ann was brought up in a newly built, semi-detached house, with a toilet indoors.
For a typical British semi-detached house, that is a saving of £460 a year.
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