bungalow
pronunciation
How to pronounce bungalow in British English:
UK [ˈbʌŋɡələʊ]
How to pronounce bungalow in American English:
US [ˈbʌŋɡəloʊ]
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- Noun:
- a small house with a single story
Word Origin
- bungalow
- bungalow: [17] Etymologically, bungalow means simply ‘Bengali’. Banglā is the Hind word for ‘of Bengal’ (as in Bangladesh), and English borrowed it (probably in the Gujarati version bangalo) in the sense ‘house in the Bengal style’. Originally this signified any simple, lightly-built, usually temporary structure, which by definition had only one storey, but it is the one-storeyedness that has come to be the identifying characteristic.
- bungalow (n.)
- 1670s, from Gujarati bangalo, from Hindi bangla "low, thatched house," literally "Bengalese," used elliptically for "house in the Bengal style" (see Bengal). Related: Bungaloid.
Example
- 1. The robinsons lived in a brick bungalow on the south side of chicago .
- 2. I remember changing cars twice when visiting her bungalow in new delhi in 1998 .
- 3. Ty stayed in the white clapboard bungalow he 'd lived in with his wife .
- 4. It would never have happened if he had stayed in australia , for australia is still the land of the bungalow .
- 5. Last november , I finally sold the house . I bought a bungalow and the financial pressure was slightly eased .