Meaning of forever house | Babel Free

Definitions

A house in which one settles with the expectation of living there for the rest of one's life.

Examples

“I was managing editor of the newspaper in my home town in Missouri — the place where my lifelong friends and my parents lived, where my kids could walk to the neighborhood school, where I had built what I thought was my forever house, where the golf course on which I played forgave my scattergun shots.”

“The property, nothing but a ruined skeleton of a house and overgrown fields, had come on the market while they were still in college, but Ben had immediately pictured his forever house located there.”

“Truthfully, this wasn't her forever house. She didn't want to raise her children here.”

“Her neighbor Betty, a retired corporate executive, takes a retirement package in her mid-fifties to invest in her forever house and lives on a strict budget to make her pension last for thirty years or more.”

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