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.

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. A house designed to be cool and used as a residence only during warm weather.

Translations

house used as vacation home in summer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: sommerhus (da) n
• Erzya: кизэгудо (kizegudo)
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• Esperanto: somerdomo
• Finnish: kesämökki (fi)
• Greek: εξοχικό (el) (exochikó)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

summer residence

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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

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• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} летниковец m (letnikovec)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} reședință de vară f
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• 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.