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summerhouse

noun
sum·​mer·​house | \ ˈsÉ™-mÉ™r-ËŒhau̇s How to pronounce summerhouse (audio) \

Definition of summerhouse

1 : a country house for summer residence
2 : a covered structure in a garden or park designed to provide a shady resting place in summer
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Synonyms for summerhouse

Synonyms

alcove, belvedere, casino, gazebo, kiosk, pavilion

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Examples of summerhouse in a Sentence

They have a summer house on the lake. the sudden shower had wedding guests scurrying to the safety of the garden's summerhouse

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 Logan's summerhouse in the Hamptons was originally built in the 1960s for Henry Ford's grandson. — Hugh Hart, Fortune, "An Inside Look at ‘Succession’s’ Corporate Melodrama With Adam McKay and Kieran Culkin," 8 Sep. 2019 Old friends gather after their freshman year in college to rent a summerhouse on Lake Michigan and chase girls. — Los Angeles Times, "Movies on TV this week Sept. 1 - 7, 2019: John Wayne in ‘The Searchers’ and more," 30 Aug. 2019 Pavilions—also known as summerhouses, gazebos or belvederes—are architects’ more free-spirited counterpoints to a house. — Karen Bruno, WSJ, "Wealthy Homeowners Find a Luxurious Way to Shelter Outdoors," 1 Aug. 2018 Casa Vicens Built in the 1880s as a summerhouse for stockbroker Manel Vicens, Casa Vicens was the very first house Gaudí designed. — Gemma Askham, Condé Nast Traveler, "Gaudí in Barcelona: Our Guide," 3 Mar. 2018 The set by Rob Howell doesn’t create a realistic facsimile of the Connecticut summerhouse in which O’Neill spent his boyhood summers. — Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com, "Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons fill 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' with sorrow and savagery," 12 June 2018 Finding serenity on a bench in one of the scores of gazebos known as summerhouses (the view from Huntington Lookout is spectacular). — Steve Reddicliffe, New York Times, "Mohonk’s Farm-to-Table Rebirth," 1 Aug. 2017

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First Known Use of summerhouse

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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summerhouse

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English Language Learners Definition of summerhouse

chiefly British : a covered structure in a garden or park that is used as a resting place in summer
: a house that someone lives in during the summer

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