bungalow
noun
bun·ga·low
ˈbəŋ-gə-ˌlō 
: a one-storied house with a low-pitched roof
also
: a house having one and a half stories and usually a front porch
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In Racine, a 898-square-foot bungalow, in the 1300 block of Kewaunee Street, sold for $65,000.
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These lonely senior citizens arrive at a Los Angeles bungalow where Fish, newly discharged from an asylum, wrestles with an imagined demon and Poinsettia mourns a fantasy romance with composer Giacomo Puccini.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
But his family still can’t live in this 777-square-foot stucco-sided bungalow on Olive Avenue – at least not yet.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025
It is surrounded by multi-million dollar luxury landed homes known as good class bungalows and several embassies.
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Dakota Barnes-Rush, jsonline.com, 7 July 2025
These lonely senior citizens arrive at a Los Angeles bungalow where Fish, newly discharged from an asylum, wrestles with an imagined demon and Poinsettia mourns a fantasy romance with composer Giacomo Puccini.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
But his family still can’t live in this 777-square-foot stucco-sided bungalow on Olive Avenue – at least not yet.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025
It is surrounded by multi-million dollar luxury landed homes known as good class bungalows and several embassies.
—Jonathan Burgos, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
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bungalow
noun
bun·ga·low
ˈbəŋ-gə-ˌlō
: a house with a single story and a roof with a low slope
also
: a house having one and a half stories and usually a front porch
Etymology
from Hindi baṅglā, literally, "(house) in the style of Bengal"
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