Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

summerhouse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English

Syllables: sum-mer-house
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

An outbuilding in a garden where the owners can relax in warm weather.

Example Sentences

""When he had religion he used to be always hammerin' up seats and summer-houses and things out of bits of twisty wood. Mad over that, he was.""

Etymology

From Middle English somer-hous, from Old English sumerhūs, sumorhūs, equivalent to summer + house. Compare Dutch zomerhuis, German Sommerhaus, Danish sommerhus, Swedish sommarhus.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: somer-hous, sumerhūs

Inflected Forms

summerhouses (plural) summer house (alternative) summer-house (alternative)

Phrases

country house holiday home

Frequently Paired Words

country house dacha holiday home villa winterhouse

Synonyms

gazebo

Questions

What does summerhouse mean?: A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
Where does summerhouse come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce summerhouse

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