summer house
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈsʌmər haʊs/
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casa de verano
- We spent every weekend at our summer house by the ocean, enjoying the warm weather.
- buy a summer house
- rent a summer house
- lakeside summer house
I think she also thinks that my parents, summer house and boat are his.
- I think she also thinks that my parents, summer house and boat are his.
- Yesterday we went to a summer house, Santa Monica in Chicago.
Examples
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I'm going to my summer house in Colorado.
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You need to go back to our summer house, down by the lake.
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Is this the summer house?
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We had a summer house and a winter house.
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My summer house is perfect for writing songs.
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Stay with Bunny and me at the summer house.
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I'm designing a summer house for my parents.
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I've rented a summer house here right by the edge of the river.
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The last summer I sat at my summer house in northern Vermont with a stack of books about that high, picking the books for this course.
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The Hannover summer house was a three-story Victorian mansion large enough to be a hotel.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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3.2
A large fancy house in the countryside or suburbs that people use as a holiday home
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2.0
A home near the sea used for holidays
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2.3
A house you use during holidays, not your main home
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3.4
A large house in the countryside with its own land
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a house used during the summer' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'summer' (season) + 'house' (dwelling), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning. This is a regular noun–noun compound pattern common across languages (e.g. 'maison d'été'), reinforcing its predictability and transparency.
Etymology
Summer house comes from the simple idea of a house for the summer. People used it to relax away from the city heat, so it means 'a house used during the summer months'.