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
Holiday rates at Pelican Hill start at just north of $1,000 a night for a one-bedroom bungalow and around $3,400 for the smaller villas that sleep up to six guests.
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David Dickstein, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
Vaccination faces additional challenges in a century-old Sarasota County neighborhood of low-slung bungalows called Pinecraft, home to about 3,000 Mennonites — and double that number when Amish snowbirds arrive in the winter.
—Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
The Clippers’ Intuit Dome has 46 traditional suites, plus 20 bungalow suites and four courtside cabanas.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
The Craftsman-style bungalow was originally built in the 1940s and withstood several haphazard additions and renovations before Haury and Saikami got their hands on it.
—Linne Halpern, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
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David Dickstein, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
Vaccination faces additional challenges in a century-old Sarasota County neighborhood of low-slung bungalows called Pinecraft, home to about 3,000 Mennonites — and double that number when Amish snowbirds arrive in the winter.
—Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
The Clippers’ Intuit Dome has 46 traditional suites, plus 20 bungalow suites and four courtside cabanas.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
The Craftsman-style bungalow was originally built in the 1940s and withstood several haphazard additions and renovations before Haury and Saikami got their hands on it.
—Linne Halpern, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bungalow
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The 16-room inn, which has seven cottages - all named after the seven presidents born in Virginia - is also owned by Donahue.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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Boomhower said the city shouldn’t be limiting development on sites that don’t have contributing resources just because some historic cottages might be nearby.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Hike through beech, oak, and pine forests and learn more about the history of the park in the 15th-century farmhouse turned visitor center, Iturraran Parketxea.—
Michelle Arellano Martin,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
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The interior designer’s Wayfair rug collection with Loloi includes so many options in neutral shades and subtle patterns that complement a variety of home styles, including modern, farmhouse, and traditional aesthetics.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Shockley and Maycock alerted the ship’s crew but alleged the staff did not take steps to remediate the issue in and around their cabin, according to the complaint.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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And the movie, with these two sexy people sparring for about 10 minutes, only to settle their differences over whiskey before a roaring fire in a snowbound cabin that looks like a vacation hideaway, has an unironic romance-novel baby-it’s-cold-outside vibe of old-school desert-island love.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Shot in New Jersey, the indie follows the employees of a dysfunctional tech startup whose corporate retreat at a remote mansion spirals into chaos after a co-worker’s mysterious death.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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Brands like Attersee and Sophie Bille Brahe have shops on an upper-level floor, while Adam Lippes’ uptown salon-style location occupies the main floor of a Georgian mansion on Fifth Avenue.—
Kathy Lee,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Bungalow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bungalow. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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