summerhouse
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See also: summer-house and summer house
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerhūs, sumorhūs, equivalent to summer + house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus, Danish sommerhus, Swedish sommarhus.
Noun[edit]
summerhouse (plural summerhouses)
- A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
- An outbuilding in a garden where the owners can relax in warm weather.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 138:
- "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."
Translations[edit]
house used as vacation home in summer
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summer residence
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “summerhouse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.