25 Parts of a House English Vocabulary

Parts of a House List

House

Room

Balcony

Bathroom

Bedroom

Dining room

Living room

Kitchen

Garage

Roof

Chimney

Garden

Pool

Toilet

Window

Staircase

Door

Floor

Wall

Ceiling

Lawn

Path

Fence

Doorbell

Doormat

Parts of a House

 House

/haʊs/

Meaning: a building that people, usually one family, live in

Sentence: They live in a little house.

 Room

/ruːm/

Meaning: a part of the inside of a building that is separated from other parts by walls, floor, and ceiling

Sentence: She cleaned her room.

 Balcony

/ˈbæl.kə.ni/

Meaning: an area with a wall or bars around it that is joined to the outside wall of a building on an upper level

Sentence: They had a drink on the hotel balcony.

 Bathroom

/ˈbæθ.ruːm/

Meaning: a room with a bath and/or shower and often a toilet.

Sentence: This house has three bathrooms. 

 Bedroom

/ˈbed.ruːm/

Meaning: a room used for sleeping in

Sentence: He has his own bedroom.

Dining room

/ˈdaɪ.nɪŋ ˌruːm/

Meaning: a room in which meals are eaten
picture of dining room

Sentence: Dinner is served in the dining room from 18.30- 20.

Living room

/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ ˌruːm/

Meaning: the room in a house or apartment that is used for relaxing in and entertaining guests

Sentence: We is in the living room watching TV.

Kitchen

/ˈkɪtʃ.ən/

Meaning: a room where food is kept, prepared, and cooked and where the dishes are washed

Sentence: We are in the kitchen.

Garage

/ɡəˈrɑːʒ/

Meaning: a building where a car is kept, built next to or as part of a house

Sentence: His car’s in the garage.

Roof

/ruːf/

Meaning: the covering that forms the top of a building, vehicle, etc.

Sentence: The roof of their house is red.

Chimney

/ˈtʃɪm.ni/

Meaning: a hollow structure that allows the smoke from a fire inside a building to escape to the air outside

Sentence: This chimney is made of brick.

Garden

/ˈɡɑːr.dən/

Meaning: a piece of land next to and belonging to a house, where flowers and other plants are grown, and often containing an area of grass

Sentence: Every house had a garden.

Pool

/puːl/

Meaning: a small area of usually still water

Sentence: He jumped into the pool.

Toilet

/ˈtɔɪ.lət/

Meaning: a bowl-shaped device with a seat that you sit on or stand near when emptying the body of urine or solid waste, or another device used for this purpose

Sentence: I need to go to the toilet.

Window

/ˈwɪn.doʊ/

Meaning: a space usually filled with glass in the wall of a building, to allow light and air in and to allow people inside the building to see out

Sentence: Who broke the window?

Staircase

/ˈster.keɪs/

Meaning: a set of stairs inside a building, usually with a bar fixed on the wall or onto vertical poles at the side for you to hold on to

Sentence: How many steps does this staircase have?

Door

/dɔːr/

Meaning: a flat object that is used to close the entrance of something such as a room or building

Sentence: Don’t open the door.

Floor

/flɔːr/

Meaning: the flat surface of a room on which you walk

Sentence: The children sat playing on the floor.

Wall

/wɑːl/

Meaning: a vertical structure, often made of stone or brick, that divides or surrounds something

Sentence: The map is on the wall.

Ceiling

/ˈsiː.lɪŋ/

Meaning: the inside surface of a room that you can see when you look above you

Sentence: Can you reach the ceiling?

Lawn

/lɑːn/

Meaning: an area of grass, especially near to a house or in a park, that is cut regularly to keep it short

Sentence: He hates mowing the lawn.

Path

/pæθ/

Meaning: a route or track between one place and another, or the direction in which something is moving

Sentence: They walked along a narrow path.

Fence

/fens/

Meaning: a structure that divides two areas of land, similar to a wall

Sentence: She climbed over the fence.

Doorbell

/ˈdɔːr.bel/

Meaning: a bell, operated by a button on or next to the door of a house, that you push to tell the people inside that you are there

Sentence: Didn’t you hear the doorbell?

Doormat

/ˈdɔːr.mæt/

Meaning: a piece of thick material that is put on the floor by a door, used to clean your shoes on when you go into a building

Sentence: Two rooms even have doormats in front of them.