single-wide

or sin·gle·wide

[ sing-guhl-wahyd ]

noun

1. a mobile home used as a permanent residence.

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to such a mobile home.

Word History and Origins

Origin of single-wide¹

First recorded in 1965–70; by analogy with double-wide ( def )

Example Sentences

After his arrest, Lynch lost his California home in bankruptcy and eventually moved into a single-wide trailer on his mother’s property in New Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times

These days, he struggles financially, lives in a single-wide trailer on his mom’s property in New Mexico and strains to remember the details of the marijuana operation that got him in so much trouble.

From Los Angeles Times

At the time, Hoover says she was poor and living in a single-wide trailer.

From Los Angeles Times

Under the government’s theory, the murder occurred in the Schofield home, a single-wide trailer.

From New York Times

The family was only one payment away from owning their single-wide mobile home and like many other northern New Mexico residents whose homes were in the path of the flames, the Silvas were uninsured.

From Seattle Times