vacation home
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- noun
- /vəˈkeɪʃən hoʊm/
- US
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casa de vacaciones
- My family's vacation home is located near the beach, where we spend our summers.
- buy a vacation home
- rent a vacation home
- summer vacation home
Your really rural areas, your vacation homes out far away.
- Your really rural areas, your vacation homes out far away.
- They've done yachts, private jets, celeb homes, they've done condos, giant houses, vacation homes, ski chalets.
- I mean, Jeff Bezos has the biggest yacht you can imagine and more vacation homes, and he's happier, I think.
Examples
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My family's vacation home is just a couple of towns away from here.
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The loans can't be used for second homes and vacation homes.
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This is a vacation home.
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All these houses are people's vacation homes.
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Reminds me of my vacation home.
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We're having a little get-together at my vacation home on Thursday.
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When he was nine, he helped his father build a summer vacation home in upstate New York.
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The cottage was originally built in London in the early 1800s as a vacation home for a young Lord and his wife.
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Did you know that this was the vacation home for the great director, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock?
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Dune Vista is a five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath vacation home that overlooks the shimmering gulf in Dune Allen Beach.
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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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3.2
A house in the country used for staying and relaxing during summer
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9.9
A small city apartment kept for short stays away from your main home
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a house used for holidays' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'vacation' (a period of leisure away from obligations) with 'home' (a dwelling). This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., 'holiday home') and follows straightforward noun-noun modification, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Vacation home is a compound that literally joins vacation and home — picture a second home you use only for 'holidays', a place you go away to relax. That's why it means 'a house used for holidays' and not your main home.