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dacha

Syllables: da·cha/ˈdæt͡ʃ.ə//ˈdɑ.t͡ʃə/

dacha noun: a Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

dacha: a Russian villa or summer house in the countryside
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Noun

dacha (plural dachas or dachi)

  1. A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.
    • The belt is full of dachi, i.e., summer villas, all now closed. […] Most of the dachi are small; but some large, sumptuous, and more securely fenced, a few with iron palisades to insure privacy. […] There are no roads in the environs of Odessa, except among the dachi by the shore.1899, Cyprian Cope [pseudonym; James Biddle Baron Cope di Valromita], Arabesques: A Perspective, London: Leonard Smithers and Co, […], pages 214–216
    • This was a great rambling wooden house, fashioned, like most of the Muscovish dachi, or country houses, in the form of a square main building in the centre, flanked by a wing on each side which came forward in a semicircle, like a man’s outstretched arms, as though to embrace the approaching...1904, Fred Whishaw, The Tiger of Muscovy, London; New York, N.Y.; Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., […], page 295

dacha meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Arabic

dacha in Hindi

Russian villa or summer house
दाचा dācā

dacha in Urdu

Russian villa or summer house
داچا dācā

dacha in Arabic

Russian villa or summer house
دَاشَة dāša

Examples of dacha in a sentence

  • The road to his country dacha, some twenty miles away, was guarded by over 3,000 agents, with cars, telephone connections, etc.1968, Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 546–547:
  • Churchill listened in silence, then returned to the dacha leaving Clark Kerr outside.1986, Martin Kitchen, British Policy Towards the Soviet Union during the Second World War, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:

Forms of dacha

pluraldachas
pluraldachi
alternative formdatcha

Origin of dacha

Borrowed from Russian да́ча (dáča), originally "gift, portion, land (granted by a prince)", from дать (datʹ, “to give”).

Words that rhyme with dacha

Questions about dacha

What does dacha mean?
Dacha means a Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.
What is dacha in Hindi?
Dacha in Hindi is दाचा (dācā). See Dacha meaning in Hindi.
How do you use dacha in a sentence?
The road to his country dacha, some twenty miles away, was guarded by over 3,000 agents, with cars, telephone connections, etc.
What part of speech is dacha?
Dacha is a noun.
How do you pronounce dacha?
Dacha is pronounced /ˈdæt͡ʃ.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of dacha?
The plural of dacha is dachas.

Words near dacha in the dictionary

  1. dacetine
  2. dacetuzumab
  3. Dacey
  4. Daceys
  5. Daceyville
  6. dacha
  7. dacha-saltee
  8. Dachang
  9. dachas
  10. Dachau
  11. dachel

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