Noun: bungalow
| Singular | bungalow |
| Plural | bungalows |
Sample Sentences
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My aunt can't manage the stairs any more, so she's moving to a bungalow.
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the proprietor of the little tin bungalow that did duty for a garage [1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XII, in Have His Carcase:]
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Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward. [1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur:]
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Following the rule adopted in most tropical countries, a bungalow style of house was chosen. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 110:]
Nouns inflected like bungalow
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Gujarati બંગલો (baṅglo, “Bengali-style house; a detached house situated between a garden or a field”). Compare Hindi बंगला (baṅglā, “Bengali”), Bengali বাংলা (baṅla, “Bengal”). Doublet of bangalo and Bangla.
Verbs referencing "bungalow"
Dutch Nouns
bungalow, Finnish Nouns
bungalow, Italian Nouns
bungalow, Romanian Nouns
bungalow, German Nouns
Bungalow, Hungarian Nouns
bungaló, Irish Nouns
bungaló, Portuguese Nouns
bangalô, Catalan Nouns
bungalou, Romanian Nouns
bungalou.