Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.
  • noun A house for summer residence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summer
  • noun a small roofed building affording shade and rest

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Examples

  • Mr Brown claimed more than £500 to redecorate a "summerhouse" - a building in the grounds of his Scottish home he uses as an office.

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  • The summerhouse was an octagon, only big enough inside for two people, and its latticework walls had been recently painted a greenish blue.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • The summerhouse was an octagon, only big enough inside for two people, and its latticework walls had been recently painted a greenish blue.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • The summerhouse was an octagon, only big enough inside for two people, and its latticework walls had been recently painted a greenish blue.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • Inside—or, rather, outside—the summerhouse was the kind of place Rebecca would find enchanting, with its burbling fountain, decorative brickwork, and stone chairs protected from the elements by shelflike orange tile roofs.

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  • Lot of nice designs and a former residence of Arne Jacobssen and his summerhouse is a part of the exhibition.

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  • The summerhouse was a quaint stockade of dark madrono boughs thatched with red-wood bark, strongly suggestive of deeper woodland shadow.

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  • This year we have installed a so-called "summerhouse" in the garden.

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  • This year we have installed a so-called "summerhouse" in the garden.

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  • That's a killer for Brown. 500 quid repainting a 'summerhouse'.

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