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summerhouse

summerhouse noun: a house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.

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 summerhouse

pluralsummerhouses
alternative formsummer house
alternative formsummer-house

Origin of summerhouse

From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerhūs, sumorhūs, equivalent to summer + house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus, Danish sommerhus, Swedish sommarhus.

Questions about summerhouse

What does summerhouse mean?
Summerhouse means a house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
What part of speech is summerhouse?
Summerhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of summerhouse?
The plural of summerhouse is summerhouses.

Words near summerhouse in the dictionary

  1. Summerhayes
  2. Summerhays
  3. Summerhayses
  4. Summerhill
  5. Summerhills
  6. summerhouse
  7. summerhouses
  8. summerier
  9. summeriest
  10. summerily
  11. summeriness

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