beach house
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2.0
- noun
- /biːtʃ haʊs/
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casa de playa
- The family spent their vacation in a cozy beach house near the shore.
- rent a beach house
- buy a beach house
- weekend beach house
The idea of like buying a beach house and like looking into window treatments.
- The idea of like buying a beach house and like looking into window treatments.
- OK, these looked really cute on Amazon to wear down to the beach house.
- The whole, well, must be nice to have your trust fund get you into a beach house.
- Spend the summer in this beach house.
- And I've gone back east much more to be with my family and my little beach house there.
- And then there are what I'd call some perks of, well, we have a nice beach house.
- Did you see a mad dash of, you know, snowbirds trying to get out and buy their beach house?
- So I think it was important, you know, when you're about to write a script to go, oh, well, you know, my mom has a beach house and my uncle owns a grocery store.
- So I just was kind of thinking, have you seen anything in your markets where the cabins are a better value than the beach houses?
- Like, it's not like they're growing older, moving on to like, a sprawling beach house and having a triumphant second act like Diane Keaton in every movie.
Examples
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You know, me and my wife just bought this, this beach house in Destin, FL.
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It's a simple picture, really, taken outside a beach house we rented once.
Fiction book (1991) -
You said this was a weekend beach house.
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All right, we'll talk about it at the beach house this weekend.
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It's the perfect beach house.
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Then these guys go back to their beach house and box up all their stuff.
Fiction book (1991) -
Still got that little beach house down in Venice?
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Rebecca invited me to spend the weekend with her in a beach house she owned on the Jersey Shore.
Fiction book (1995) -
After that night at the beach house, my dad moped around all day, but he didn't say anything.
Fiction book (1998) -
Wouldn't these be charming in a Malibu beach house?
Synonyms
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9.9
A small holiday house near the sea or a lake
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2.3
A house you use during holidays, not your main home
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3.2
A house in the country used for staying and relaxing during summer
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Morphology
The meaning 'a house located on or near a beach' is directly and compositionally derived from 'beach' (shore) + 'house' (dwelling); there is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift. This noun–noun compound is cross-linguistically common and follows a predictable pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name beach house comes from the simple picture of a house built right on the beach, where people enjoy the sea and sand. That's why today 'beach house' means a home by the beach, often used as a 'vacation home'.