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summerhouse

Today it means: A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year. Full definition →

Middle English somer-hous ← Old English sumerhūs

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Old English · inherited fromsumerhūs
Middle English · inherited fromsomer-hous
English todaysummerhouse

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.