dacha
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- noun
- /ˈdɑːkə/
- I expected to see Moscow finally, but the dacha was near Krasnogorsk, a train stop shy.
- dacha near Moscow
Examples
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You are to come to your father's dacha.
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"Stalin had a number of dachas around Moscow, didn't he?" he asked.
Fiction book (1992) -
And now, they were the only people in the entire dacha development.
Fiction book (1995) -
"I want to go to the dacha, too," he announced.
Fiction book (1995) -
Each spring, I would visit an aging relative at her dacha in Nemchinovka village, not far from Moscow.
Fiction book (2002) -
The poet, like a caged lion in his dacha, sent urgent letters full of indignation to his influential acquaintances.
Fiction book (1993) -
Compromises were hammered out at Novo-Ogaryevo, Gorbachev's presidential dacha near Moscow, in closed sessions with republican leaders.
Academic text (1992) -
My parents still spend summers at our dacha, raising flowers and making apple preserves.
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Each spring, I would visit an aging relative at her dacha in Nemchinovka village, not far from Moscow.
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The visitors have been taken to a beautiful Russian dacha overlooking the Black Sea.
Synonyms
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A simple wooden house in the country, common in Russia
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word dacha comes from the Russian verb dat' meaning 'to give'. It first meant land 'given' to someone and later the small country house people use as a summer or weekend retreat outside the city, so dacha now means a seasonal second home.