summerhouse

See also: summer-house and summer house

English

Alternative forms

• summer house, summer-house

Etymology

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

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

     "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."

Translations

house used as vacation home in summer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 避暑别墅

• Danish: sommerhus (da) n
• Dutch: zomerhuis (nl)
• Erzya: кизэгудо (kizegudo)
• Esperanto: somerdomo
• Finnish: kesämökki (fi)
• German: Sommerhaus (de) n
• Greek: εξοχικό (el) (exochikó)
• Polish: dom letniskowy m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: sommarhus (sv)
• Turkish: yazlık ev
• Yiddish: זומערהויז n (zumerhoyz)

summer residence

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: sommerbolig c
• Erzya: кизэгудо (kizegudo)
• Esperanto: somerdomo
• Finnish: kesäasunto, kesätalo
• Kazakh: жазүй (jazüi)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

outbuilding in a garden

• Latin: trichila f, triclea f

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Translations to be checked

• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} летниковец m (letnikovec)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} reședință de vară f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} да́ча (ru) f (dáča)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} letovnik m, ^{(please verify)} letnjikovac (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} letnikovac m
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yazlık (tr)

See also

• country house
• dacha
• holiday home
• villa
• winterhouse

References

• “summerhouse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.