summerhouse

[ suhm-er-hous ]
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noun,plural sum·mer·hous·es [suhm-er-hou-ziz]. /ˈsʌm ərˌhaʊ zɪz/.
  1. a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.

Origin of summerhouse

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First recorded in 1350–1400, summerhouse is from Middle English sumer hous. See summer1, house

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How to use summerhouse in a sentence

  • The spot to which my companion led me was a ruined summerhouse, not a stone's throw from the outer garden hedge.

    Rutledge | Miriam Coles Harris
  • Greatly allarmed, they turned back, and told my grandmother that a strange man was lying in the summerhouse.

  • She was in the summerhouse up the garden with her treasures spread out before her.

    The Lady of Lynn | Walter Besant
  • I found the captain sitting in the summerhouse alone, without the usual solace of his tobacco and his October.

    The Lady of Lynn | Walter Besant
  • They ran into a wooden summerhouse, painted cunningly after the Chinese fashion, shut themselves in, and drew their swords.

British Dictionary definitions for summerhouse

summerhouse

/ (ˈsʌməˌhaʊs) /


noun
  1. a small building in a garden or park, used for shade or recreation in the summer

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