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bungalow

[ buhng-guh-loh ]

noun

  1. a cottage of one story.
  2. (in India) a one-storied thatched or tiled house, usually surrounded by a veranda.
  3. (in the U.S.) a derivation of the Indian house type, popular especially during the first quarter of the 20th century, usually having one and a half stories, a widely bracketed gable roof, and a multi-windowed dormer and frequently built of rustic materials.


bungalow

/ ˈbʌŋɡəˌləʊ /

noun

  1. a one-storey house, sometimes with an attic
  2. (in India) a one-storey house, usually surrounded by a veranda
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bungalow1

First recorded in 1670–80, bungalow is from the Hindi word banglā literally, of Bengal
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bungalow1

C17: from Hindi banglā (house) of the Bengal type
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Example Sentences

Over the past couple years, the Zimmerman family has added the bungalows in the back and now a luxury high-rise.

Outsite is now experimenting with private apartments or bungalows in locations like Costa Rica where members get access to community activities and the co-working space.

From Digiday

This pet-friendly bungalow was extensively renovated after sustaining damage from Hurricane Michael in 2018.

Up Chicago Avenue sits a pristine bungalow with a new “for sale” sign.

From Time

Real estate here is small cottage and bungalow types that work perfectly for the LGBTQ community.

This bungalow has two levels, a screening room, a dining room, many offices, an art department, and cutting rooms.

I'm to be at his Universal bungalow at twelve-thirty for lunch, to meet him for the first time, going to see a man about a job.

I arrive at the bungalow and find his staff standing about stunned, some of them in tears.

He'd kept the few offices at the front of the bungalow, now oddly barren.

It's a studio bungalow the way Newport summer houses are “cottages.”

Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.

One evening in the month of April, a slim, straight-backed girl stood in the veranda of a bungalow at Meerut.

For he saw her looking up into his eyes as once before on the lawn of her English bungalow four months ago.

The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.

I found here the handsomest bungalow I had seen during the whole journey from Benares to Bombay.

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