as in cottage
a house having one or one and a half stories and often a front porch
She bought a small bungalow just outside the city.
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Recent Examples of bungalow
There are 15 contemporary mountain bungalows spread across the property, with a total of 24 rooms and suites that feature calm earth tones, local coffee, and rain showers with windows opening up to the foliage outside.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2026
Those who produce are embraced even when they're photographed embracing a female reporter on the roof of some Arizona resort bungalow.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
The hotel and day spa added eight new bungalows in 2025 to keep up with demand.
—Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Eve Plumb sat on a sofa in a Hollywood studio bungalow in 1969, a 10-year-old child actress listening quietly as two men decided her fate.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2026
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2026
Those who produce are embraced even when they're photographed embracing a female reporter on the roof of some Arizona resort bungalow.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
The hotel and day spa added eight new bungalows in 2025 to keep up with demand.
—Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Eve Plumb sat on a sofa in a Hollywood studio bungalow in 1969, a 10-year-old child actress listening quietly as two men decided her fate.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bungalow
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Jenny Magidson’s cottage is one of about 785 homes destroyed in her community, according to the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, about two-thirds of those in Grizzly Flats.—
Corey Schmidt,
Sacbee.com,
10 May 2026
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Four championship golf courses surround the cottages, villas, and condos.—
Jess Hoffert,
Midwest Living,
9 May 2026
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If your vibe is French country or farmhouse chic, this flirty, feminine duvet cover set checks all the boxes.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 May 2026
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The celebration appeared to take place at Hadid's elegant Pennsylvania farmhouse.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
2 May 2026
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Video shot by a passenger aboard the plane and shared with CBS News shows smoke in the cabin of the aircraft.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
9 May 2026
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The recent coverage of a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is painfully familiar to cruisers who spent days and weeks trapped in their cabins at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
9 May 2026
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At the urging of Maddy, Cassie visits a raucous mansion party hosted by a popular online influencer in the hopes of going viral.—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
10 May 2026
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The Epsteins, on the other hand, rented a second-floor apartment at the end of our street in a house that, like many of the old mansions, had been divided up and turned into rentals.—
Gabrielle Glancy,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2026
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“Bungalow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bungalow. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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