granny flat

noun

Definition of granny flatnext
chiefly British
as in railroad flat

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Recent Examples of granny flat The move to expand the use of granny flats and other ADUs is long overdue. — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025 Their bipartisan bill will expand financing access for ADUs, which include backyard cottages, granny flats, in-law suites and similar units, also called tiny homes. — Amelia Wu july 21, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2025 People will be tempted to build ADUs [accessory dwelling units, also known as backyard apartments or ‘granny flats’] and maximize profits by turning them into STRVs. — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2025 The man who claimed to be disrupting the backyard housing industry — securing financing, permits and building granny flats across San Diego County, before collecting millions of dollars without doing the work — is now seeking federal protection from his many creditors. — Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for granny flat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for granny flat
  1. railroad flat
  2. efficiency apartment
  3. studio apartment
  4. garden apartment
  5. efficiency
  6. duplex apartment
  7. condo
  8. penthouse
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
  • The business also offered plans for tiny homes, about the size of an efficiency apartment.
    — Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
  • The former Sears building would be redeveloped into a local brewery, art gallery, event space, retail space, offices, and efficiency apartments.
    — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Dec. 2025
Definition of efficiency apartment
Noun
  • Franklin rented the property from Margaret Stevenson and lived on the second floor in a studio apartment.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • The project includes 36 studio apartments, 144 one-bedroom units and 32 two-bedroom units.
    — Sofia Baltodano, Miami Herald, 30 June 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
Noun
  • At this scale, even a simple operation becomes a bottleneck, and any extra efficiency has global economic consequences.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
  • The company says this approach improves physical accuracy, execution efficiency, and generalization for real-world robotic applications.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Definition of efficiency
Noun
  • 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
  • Still, the town looks diminutive, a thin ribbon of boxy wooden condo buildings and parking lots in a brief clearing between foothills dense with conifers.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
  • In addition, the condo comes with three parking spaces and three private storage units.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 July 2026
Definition of condo
Noun
  • Ronaldo spent $8 million on a waterfront penthouse in Bay Harbor Islands.
    — Catherine Odom July 10, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
  • That, plus a 20-foot penthouse, would keep the statue at 250 feet overall — but with very different proportions.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 July 2026
Definition of penthouse

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“Granny flat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/granny%20flat. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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