summer house

A form of summerhouse — A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.

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Meanings

nounsummer house (plural summer houses)

plural summer houses

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of summerhouse.

    One [old passenger coach], still used as a summer house, has been stripped of its wheels and repainted fairly recently in bright green, while the other, still in begrimed olive-green, has descended to the level of a chicken house.

    1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136
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“summer house.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summer%20house. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “summer house,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summer%20house.

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