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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 grape
  2. Summer Hill
  3. Summer Hill Creek
  4. summer holiday
  5. summer holidays
  6. summer house
  7. summer houses
  8. Summer Island
  9. Summer Isles
  10. summer job
  11. summer jobs

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