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single-wide

American  
[sing-guhl-wahyd] / ˈsɪŋ gəlˌwaɪd /
Or singlewide

noun

  1. a mobile home used as a permanent residence.


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. )

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Grandmother Sara Folger sits in the kitchen of her single-wide trailer, the Rocky Mountains looming in the distance, and remembers the Bozeman, Montana she fell in love with decades ago.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2023

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 Oct. 24, 2022

She was already homeless when Ian struck, a situation that began in June after the rent for the single-wide trailer she’d been staying in increased to $1,000 per month from $728.

From Washington Post Oct. 3, 2022

For the last five years, they’d been in the same single-wide, the result of a landlord who owed Jimmy something.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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