summerhouse

See also: summer-house and summer house

English

Alternative forms

summer house, summer-house

Etymology

From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerhūs, sumorhūs, equivalent to summer +‎ house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus.

Noun

summerhouse (plural summerhouses)

A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
A house designed to be cool and used as a residence only during warm weather.

Translations

house used as vacation home in summer

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Danish: sommerhus (da) n
Erzya: кизэгудо (kizegudo)

Finnish: kesämökki (fi)
Greek: εξοχικό (el) (exochikó)
Russian: please add this translation if you can

summer residence

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Danish: sommerbolig c
Erzya: кизэгудо (kizegudo)

Finnish: kesäasunto, kesätalo
Kazakh: жазүй (jazüy)
Russian: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} somerdomo
Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} летниковец m (letníkovec)
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} reședință de vară f

Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} letovnik m, ^{(please verify)} letnjikovac (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} letnikovac m
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yazlık (tr)

References

“summerhouse” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.