da·cha

[dah-chuh]
noun
a Russian country house or villa.
Also, datcha.


Origin:
1895–1900; < Russian dácha, orig., allotment of land; cognate with Serbo-Croatian dȁća, Slovene dáča tribute < Slavic *datja; akin to Latin dōs, stem dōt- dowry, dot2

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dacha or datcha (ˈdætʃə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a country house or cottage in Russia
 
[from Russian: a giving, gift]
 
datcha or datcha
 
n
 
[from Russian: a giving, gift]

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Dacha is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
He stated that he already had the means to buy a car and an expensive dacha.
The guests at the dacha had had far too much to drink that evening.
He was therefore taking her to dinner at the apartment of an uncle who was away on holiday at his country dacha.
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