bungalow

UK/ˈbʌŋɡələʊ/US/ˈbʌŋɡəloʊ/

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Other forms: bungalows

A bungalow is a house all on one level. A seaside bungalow, live in a bungalow, a modern bungalow.

Having no stairs makes it the standard choice for people who cannot manage them, and it uses far more land per room than a two-storey house. The word came from India, where a bangla was a Bengali-style house, and British builders took the idea home.

Definitions of bungalow

1nounbungalowA house all on one level.B1+
“My grandparents moved to a bungalow because they couldn't manage the stairs.”

bungalow is a house.

Where it comes from

From Gujarati and Hindi words meaning a house in the Bengali style. British builders in India took the form and the name home.

gu
બંગલો — Bengali-style house; a detached house situated between a garden or a field
English, today
bungalow

Borrowed from gu બંગલો (“Bengali-style house; a detached house situated between a garden or a field”). Compare Hindi बंगला (“Bengali”), bn বাংলা (“Bengal”). a doublet of bangalo and Bangla.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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bungalow in the wild

The first house in England that was classified as a bungalow was built in 1869.
Bungalow
In the U.S., bungalows were first built as vacation homes, and were most popular between 1900 and 1918, especially with the Arts and Crafts movement.
Bungalow
A bungalow court is a style of small housing development which features several small, usually detached houses arranged around a central garden or yard.
Bungalow court
The United States has seen renewed interest in bungalow courts with the growing popularity of the missing middle housing concept.
Bungalow court

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