bungalow

plural bungalows

1. A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.

   My aunt can't manage the stairs any more, so she's moving to a bungalow.

   2 more examples

   the proprietor of the little tin bungalow that did duty for a garage

   1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XII, in Have His Carcase

   Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.

   1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur

2. A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.

   Following the rule adopted in most tropical countries, a bungalow style of house was chosen.

   1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 110

3. Atlantic CanadaA chalet or lodge.
4. MalaysiaSingaporeA detached, freestanding house or mansion.