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granny flat

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noun

  1. Also called: granny annexe. self-contained accommodation within or built onto a house, suitable for an elderly parent

"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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We lived in a neighborhood where the only white people were the family who lived in front of our granny flat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025

I was raised in a run-down granny flat in Anaheim a stone’s throw from a lumberyard, the only place my immigrant parents could afford when they married in 1978.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

The fire claimed dozens of homes in its path, but the family’s house — which includes a garage and a granny flat on more than two acres near Cleveland National Forest — was unscathed.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

Dominik has what he describes as a small "granny" flat attached to his house.

From BBC ● May 7, 2023

“She's moved into our granny flat, just across the way. You know her, do you?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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