Thesaurus results for GRANNY FLAT

granny flat

noun

Definition of granny flat

chiefly British

as in railroad flat

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Recent Examples of granny flat They've been called granny flats, carriage houses, or mother-in-law suites. — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 17 May 2026 Other elements of the package would legalize statewide accessory dwelling units, also known as granny flats or ADUs, without additional restrictions beyond those required for single-family homes. — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026 The bill also loosens rules around building increasingly popular accessory dwelling units (ADUs) — such as granny flats, in-law suites or backyard cottages — alongside existing structures. — Bob Woods, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026 The bill aims to increase the state's housing supply by opening the door to two single-family homes, duplexes and, in some cases, accessory dwelling units, otherwise known as granny flats, in areas of the state zoned as residential. — Kaitlin Lange, IndyStar, 25 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for granny flat

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Noun

Their first place had been a railroad flat, four flights up, three avenues over on Columbus, amid the drug dealers and the prostitutes, the opera singers and the social workers, fine for newlyweds starting out.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley.

— Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022

Definition of railroad flat

Noun

Another small desk option for furnishing even the tiniest of studio apartments, with cute vintage-looking rounded knobs.

— Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026
Rent for a luxury studio apartment in downtown Miami might cost as much as $3,700 a month, Jeffries said.

— Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of studio apartment

Noun

Pretty in Pink is one way to refer to this historic garden apartment—built in 1875.

— Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 25 Nov. 2025
The result tees up a vote today by the full City Council, when aldermen could give a green light clearing the way for new garden apartments, attic-to-housing conversions and coach housing.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2025

Definition of garden apartment

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Global companies have cut thousands of jobs after investing heavily in AI, with many, primarily tech firms, pointing to higher efficiencies from the technology's rapid adoption.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
The Horned Frogs completed five explosive passing plays against a Baylor secondary that ranked second in the Big 12 in pass defense efficiency.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of efficiency

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Griffin also recently paid $38 million for a duplex apartment up the block from where Mamdani shot the video, according to the Wall Street Journal.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
After meeting his girlfriend, İlkay, the couple moved into a furnished two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom duplex apartment in the Kadıköy neighborhood of Istanbul.

— Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025

Definition of duplex apartment

Noun

Nearly half of existing condo sales and more than a quarter of single-family home sales were made in cash in September.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
In 2014, The New Yorker described Holmes as living in a two-bedroom Palo Alto condo, with little time for friends or dating.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of condo

Noun

Rooms Las Alcobas offers a moody-luxe atmosphere with a touch of Mexican influence throughout its 35 surprisingly spacious suites and three penthouses, where dark rosewood and fresh, fragile orchids take center stage.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
Populated almost entirely by impossibly wealthy characters reveling in penthouse splendor, the Astaire-Rogers movies argued with high style against the proposition that the material and social rewards of wealth were dubious.

— David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of penthouse

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