Definition of "bungalow" []

• A small house or cottage usually having a single story and sometimes an additional attic story. (noun)
• A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide verandah. (noun)

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• "It's what you call a bungalow: a little rectangular brick bunker, with a porch made of stone and concrete."
• "Redgrave has built himself what he calls a bungalow, somewhere near the house; but I didn't see it. '"
• "The bungalow is large but rambling, and my room was one built out at the end, with six windows with solid shutters, of which Mr. Ferney closed all but two, and half closed those, because of a tiger which is infesting the immediate neighborhood of the house, and whose growling, they say, is most annoying."