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summer-house

summer-house is the alternative spelling of summerhouse.

Meaning of summerhouse

Noun

summerhouse (plural summerhouses)

  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."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 138

Forms of summer-house

pluralsummer-houses

Questions about summer-house

What is summer-house the alternative spelling of?
Summer-house is the alternative spelling of summerhouse.

Words near summer-house in the dictionary

  1. summer-castles
  2. summer-fallow
  3. summer-fallowed
  4. summer-fallowing
  5. summer-fallows
  6. summer-house
  7. summer-houses
  8. summer-like
  9. summer-piece
  10. summer-pieces
  11. summer-stirring

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