different between bungalow vs apartment

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ????? (ba?gl?, “Bengali”), referring to the Bengali-style house. Compare Gujarati ????? (ba?glo) and Bengali ????? (ba?la). Doublet of bangalo.

Noun

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. A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide verandah

Translations

References

• “bungalow”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “bungalow” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bungalow, from Hindi ????? (ba?gl?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??.??.lo?/, /?b??.?a?.lo?/
• Hyphenation: bun?ga?low

Noun

bungalow m (plural bungalows, diminutive bungalowtje n)

1. A bungalow (small holiday home, usually single-storey).

Derived terms

• bungalowpark

Finnish

Noun

bungalow

1. bungalow (one-story house in India surrounded by a verandah)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• (France, Belgium, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /bœ?.?a.lo/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /b??.?a.lo/

Noun

bungalow m (plural bungalows)

1. bungalow

Further reading

• “bungalow” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Alternative forms

• bungaló

Etymology

From English bungalow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bun?a?lo/, [b??.?a?lo]

Noun

bungalow m (plural bungalows)

1. bungalow

Further reading

• “bungalow” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
• apt.

Etymology

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??t.m?nt/
• (General American) enPR: ?-pärt'm?nt, IPA^(key): /??p??t.m?nt/

Noun

apartment (plural apartments)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.

2. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

   • By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.

3. (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
   • 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,

     The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....

4. (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Synonyms

• (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium

Derived terms

• apartment building
• apartment block

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (ap?tomento)
• ? Thai: ??????????? (à-páat-mén)

Translations

See also

• tenement

Malay

Noun

apartment (plural apartment-apartment, informal 1st possessive apartmentku, impolite 2nd possessive apartmentmu, 3rd possessive apartmentnya)

1. apartment