single-wide

Or sin·gle·wide

[sing-guhl-wahyd]

noun

1. a mobile home used as a permanent residence.

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to such a mobile home.

Word History and Origins

Origin of single-wide¹

First recorded in 1965–70; by analogy with double-wide ( def. )

Example Sentences

Russo, who had lived in West Hollywood for 24 years, thought she had found her paradise: a single-wide trailer in the Tahitian Terrace mobile home park across the street from Will Rogers State Beach.

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After his arrest, Lynch lost his California home in bankruptcy and eventually moved into a single-wide trailer on his mother’s property in New Mexico.

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These days, he struggles financially, lives in a single-wide trailer on his mom’s property in New Mexico and strains to remember the details of the marijuana operation that got him in so much trouble.

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At the time, Hoover says she was poor and living in a single-wide trailer.

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Under the government’s theory, the murder occurred in the Schofield home, a single-wide trailer.

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