summerhouse
nounEtymology From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerhūs, sumorhūs, equivalent to summer + house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus, Danish sommerhus, Swedish sommarhus.
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:
- Related terms
- country house, dacha, holiday home, villa, winterhouse