single-wide

American  

[sing-guhl-wahyd] / ˈsɪŋ gəlˌwaɪd /

Or singlewide

noun

1. a mobile home used as a permanent residence.

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adjective

1. noting or pertaining to such a mobile home.

Etymology

Origin of single-wide

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

The family was only one payment away from owning their single-wide mobile home and like many other northern New Mexico residents whose homes were in the path of the flames, the Silvas were uninsured.

From Seattle Times

The Silvas said the cost of insuring a single-wide mobile home manufactured in the 1970s was insurmountable.

From Seattle Times