Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small house or cottage usually having a single story and sometimes an additional attic story.
- noun A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India, a one-storied thatched or tiled house, usually surrounded by a veranda; in the East generally, any one-storied dwelling provided with verandas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
house orcottage usually having asingle story - noun A
thatched ortiled one-story house inIndia surrounded by a wideverandah
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small house with a single story
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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It's what you call a bungalow: a little rectangular brick bunker, with a porch made of stone and concrete.
sanctuary Holly 2006
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It's what you call a bungalow: a little rectangular brick bunker, with a porch made of stone and concrete.
Archive 2006-12-01 Holly 2006
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Redgrave has built himself what he calls a bungalow, somewhere near the house; but I didn't see it. '
The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880
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The bungalow is large but rambling, and my room was one built out at the end, with six windows with solid shutters, of which Mr. Ferney closed all but two, and half closed those, because of a tiger which is infesting the immediate neighborhood of the house, and whose growling, they say, is most annoying.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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"Oh, them two young fellers that always used to come to the cottage -- what you call the bungalow -- across the cove there, the ones I told you about.
The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The guy in front of the bungalow is an addict, his specialty ————, which he pops like cake.
Shrine Cooper Renner 2011
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To Saxon, with her innate love of beauty and charm in all personal things, the interior of the bungalow was a revelation.
CHAPTER III 2010
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The bungalow was an elegant older building crammed between the newer multistory apartment buildings.
THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010
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His bungalow was a pretty big establishment, you see, just off the east end of the Mall, near the British infantry lines, with about thirty servants, and since there was no proper mem-sahib, and his khansamah* (* Butler.) was almost senile, there was no order about the place at all.
Fiancée 2010
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But the only bags I had with me in the bungalow were a brown leather tote with a cheesy lining from TJ Maxx and a worn out little sack I bought the previous weekend at the Rose Bowl swap meet for $15.
Martha McCully: My Reinvention Tour: The "It" Bag Isn't Doing It for Me Anymore 2009
leezer commented on the word bungalow
I love Bungalow!!! Thanks for using it!
October 24, 2008
benny4words commented on the word bungalow
I love that word as much as I love the word bubble!
Did you know it has a indian origin?
February 5, 2009