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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small, roofed structure in a park or garden affording shade and rest; a gazebo.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A structure in a park or garden, sometimes elaborate, but move often of the simplest character, generally little more than a roof supported on posts, and with the sides open or closed merely with a lattice for the support of vines, intended to provide a shady and cool place to sit in the open air, or for the enjoyment of a view, or the like. Compare kiosk and pavilion.
  2. n. A house for summer residence.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summer
  2. n. a small roofed building affording shade and rest

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‘summerhouse’ has been looked up 464 times, and has a Scrabble score of 18.