different between bungalow vs rancher

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

Etymology

From ranch +? -er.

Noun

rancher (plural ranchers)

1. A person who operates a ranch.
2. (US, real estate) A ranch-style house.
   • 1987, E. C. Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present (page 174)

     By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]

   • 2009, Thomas Collins, How to Invest in Real Estate (page 21)

     We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.

Translations

See also

• ranchgirl
• ranchboy
• ranchman
• ranchwoman

Danish

Etymology 1

From English rancher.

Noun

rancher c (singular definite rancheren, plural indefinite ranchere or ranchers)

1. rancher (person who operates a ranch)

Declension

Etymology 2

See ranch.

Noun

rancher

1. indefinite plural of ranch