summerhouse

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summerhouse

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From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerhūs, sumorhūs, equivalent to summer + house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus, Danish sommerhus, Swedish sommarhus.

noun summerhouses · summer house · summer-house

  1. A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
  2. An outbuilding in a garden where the owners can relax in warm weather. "When he had religion he used to be always hammerin' up seats and summer-houses and things out of bits of twisty wood. Mad over that, he was."

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noun house used as vacation home in summer

中文避暑别墅
DeutschSommerhaus
Ελληνικάεξοχικό exochikó
Русскийда́ча dáča

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@misc{summerhouse_2026,
  title = {summerhouse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/summerhouse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}