From the Bengalese bangla , a wooden house of one storey surrounded by a verandah. Better to live in a small rented apartment than in a flat or bungalow purchased on a housing loan. Listen, we used to have hundreds of hotels and bungalow colonies, we won't have the same thing, but it's a piece of the puzzle. Employees have to pay a hidden price for working on any advice given to them from a big forum or dais by a person who often flies and own lives in big bungalow or high rise building.
Better to live in a small rented apartment than in a flat or bungalow purchased on a housing loan which requires that person to pay EMI for several years to have a mortgaged life. There is a sticker shock phenomenon, a lot of these people are coming from 5,square-foot estates and here they get a three bedroom bungalow.
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Forgot your password? Retrieve it. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate image within your search results please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Term » Definition. Word in Definition. Princeton's WordNet 0. Wiktionary 5. Webster Dictionary 4. Freebase 4. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary 0. Editors Contribution 0. Submitted by MaryC on December 31, Etymology and Origins 0. Matched Categories House. How to pronounce bungalow? Alex US English.
David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Shampooing is an operation not known in Europe, and is peculiar to the Chinese, which I had once the curiosity to go through, and for which I paid but a trifle.
Pundit Ramnarain, Hindoo priest, brahmin, Allyghur, Definition : A person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media; a critic.
In India, pundit still means "a wise or learned man. Their title was taken from the Hindi word pandit , a term of respect for a wise person that itself derives from the Sanskrit pandita , meaning "learned. By the s, they had also extended the term to refer to other sagacious individuals, and now pundit is often used with a hint of sarcasm to refer to informed opinion makers such as political commentators, financial analysts, and newspaper columnists who boldly share their views on just about any subject that lies within their areas of expertise.
We are emerging from a brief historical phase when some foolish pundits argued that national governments were of diminishing importance in our new world, dominated by the "market state" rather than the nation state. At an annual festival in the city of Puri, objects representing Vishnu and his siblings are transported in enormous, lavishly decorated chariots.
The festival is crowded with worshippers, and over the centuries there have been instances of pilgrims getting crushed. Travelers to India exaggerated these stories, and so the legend of fanatics throwing themselves before the rolling juggernaut to die was born. This led to the word being used in a highly figurative fashion, referring both to a large, heavy vehicle chiefly in British usage , or to any seemingly inexorable force.
From very early on, juggernaut proved to be useful when describing political movements. Surely, this man does not advise the federalists of this state to march in the rear and bend their knees to the great Juggernaut of democracy! I do not hold, Mr.
Definition: a one-storied house with a low-pitched roof; also: a house having one and a half stories and usually a front porch. The word then came to take on a series of broadened meanings, including referring to homes that could be solidly built, have one and a half stories, or refer to a cottage that is intended primarily as a summer residence.
This one had no family, and his residence was a small, squalid bungalow of bamboo, etc. This "Cholera Prevention Man" from the s wears a "cholera belt," a piece of cloth British soldiers wore to protect against chills and disease. In the 19th century, there was a medical view that the cummerbund could ward off disease. Definition: a wide piece of cloth such as silk that is worn around the waist beneath the jacket of a man who is formally dressed.
In the 19th century there was a medical view that the cummerbund could serve to ward off numerous ailments, such as dysentery and cholera. Although by the cummerbund was no longer worn to prevent cholera, it continued to be worn as protection against dysentery, diarrhea, and liver disorders, and was widely believed to maintain the bowels in good working order.
Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge , Definition: a potent and selected preparation of marijuana used especially for smoking. No manner of duties or customs was allowed to be exacted from any article brought into camp, excepting country-arrack, opium, ganja, or bhang, and toddy. Definition: a light fabric of linen, cotton, or rayon usually striped and slightly puckered. Seersucker , the wrinkled and striped fabric that has become associated with preppies and suit-wearers of the American South, has absolutely nothing to do with seers or with suckers.
As if it were yesterday I can see him. I was wearing a cheap seersucker suit. He took a smouldering, foul-smelling stogey out from behind a badly singed cauliflower ear, and wherever the dreaded I-word appeared in my copy, "TK" burned a hole in the yellow paper.
0コメント