bun·ga·low

(bŭng′gə-lō′)

1. A small, usually one-story house, often having a low-pitched roof, overhanging eaves, and a veranda.

2. A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda.

[Hindi baṅglā, Bengali, bungalow.]

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bungalow

(ˈbʌŋɡəˌləʊ)

1. (Architecture) a one-storey house, sometimes with an attic

2. (Architecture) (in India) a one-storey house, usually surrounded by a veranda

[C17: from Hindi banglā (house) of the Bengal type]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bun•ga•low

(ˈbʌŋ gəˌloʊ)

n.

a small house or summer cottage, usu. of one or one and a half stories, sometimes with a veranda.

[1670–80; < Hindi banglā literally, of Bengal]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

bungalow - a small house with a single story

cottage

house - a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house"

Translations

بَيْت ذو طابَق واحِدمَنْزِلٌ ذو طابِقٍ واحِدٍ

bungalov

bungalow

Bungalow

μπάνγκαλοου

bungalow casa de una planta chalet

yksikerroksinen talo / mökki

bungalow

bungalov

bungaló

lítiî einlyft íbúîarhús

bungalow

バンガロー

방갈로

vienaaukštis namas

mājiņa

bungalov

bungalovhišica

enplanshus

บังกาโล

bungalov kulübetek katlı kır evi

nhà gỗ một tầng

平房

bungalow

[ˈbʌŋgələʊ] N → chalé m, bungalow m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bungalow

[ˈbʌŋgələʊ] n → bungalow mbungee jumping [ˈbʌndʒidʒʌmpɪŋ] n → saut m à l'élastique

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bungalow

n → Bungalow m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bungalow

[ˈbʌŋgəˌləʊ] n → bungalow m inv, villetta a un piano

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bungalow

(ˈbaŋgələu) noun

a (usually small) house of one storey. They live in a small bungalow.

bungalow

→ بَيْت ذو طابَق واحِد bungalov bungalow Bungalow μπάνγκαλοου casa de una planta, chalet yksikerroksinen talo / mökki bungalow bungalov bungalow バンガロー 방갈로 bungalow bungalow bungalow bangalô бунгало enplanshus บังกาโล bungalov nhà gỗ một tầng 平房

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It was two weeks later that John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, riding in from a tour of inspection of his vast African estate, glimpsed the head of a column of men crossing the plain that lay between his bungalow and the forest to the north and west.

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His superior officer wrote an absurd letter to his mother, saying that Imray had unaccountably disappeared and his bungalow stood empty on the road.

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Many things happened during the hours in which she slept so heavily, but she was not disturbed by the wails and the sound of things being carried in and out of the bungalow.

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He did not wish to disturb the others whom he believed to be sleeping somewhere within the structure--a low, rambling bungalow of eight rooms.

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"Everything's going A1 here, and they've built me this little bungalow, only got in it last week - stunning, isn't it?

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First, I'll buy the island; next, get forty or fifty recruits and start clearing and planting; and at the same time I'll run up a bungalow; and then you'll be relieved of my embarrassing presence--now don't say that it isn't."

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It was a bungalow of unpainted wood, consisting of two small rooms, and outside was a small shed that served as a kitchen.

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A thin spiral of smoke arose at the right of the bungalow where the barns had stood, but there were no barns there now, and from the bungalow chimney from which smoke should have arisen, there arose nothing.

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This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.

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"I'll tell you his name," the Commissioner said, as they sat on the wide veranda of his bungalow. "It's one of Haggin's terriers-- Haggin of Meringe Lagoon.

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In the bungalow at Mill Valley he lived alone, save for Lee Sing, the Chinese cook and factotum, who knew much about the strangeness of his master, who was paid well for saying nothing, and who never did say anything.

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"Good!" said the man, and he led the way down toward the flower-covered bungalow behind which lay the barns and out- houses of a well-ordered African farm.

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