summerhouse
See also: summer-house and summer house
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerhūs, sumorhūs, equivalent to summer + house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus.
Noun
summerhouse (plural summerhouses)
- A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
- A house designed to be cool and used as a residence only during warm weather.
Translations
house used as vacation home in summer
summer residence
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See also
References
- “summerhouse” (US) / “summerhouse” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
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