Meaning

6 senses
  1. (Australia, Canada, US)A house made up of two dwelling units.

    Doppelhaus

    a house with two units sharing a common wall

  2. (US)A dwelling unit with two floors.

    an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase

  3. A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.

  4. A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.

  5. A double-stranded polynucleotide.

  6. A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. You may convert the house into a duplex.

  2. The two-story duplex exploded due to flood water.

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  3. Samirah introduced a bill to allow duplex homes, like townhouses and cottages, in any place that’s currently zoned for single-family homes.

  4. He purchased a duplex in Kabylie, Algeria.

  5. Ugandan families live in a duplex on No. 3 Road in my Lulu Island neighbourhood.

Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
house:

Forms

plural: duplexes / duplices
Singularduplex
Pluralduplexes / duplices

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
semi-detached house
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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