NOUN
- a country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summer
How To Use summer house In A Sentence
- The elegant veranda of the house looks on to manicured lawns and the summer house. Times, Sunday Times
- The elegant veranda of the house looks on to manicured lawns and the summer house. Times, Sunday Times
- At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage – stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad – stools and tight – sticking snails. The Old Curiosity Shop
- We escaped to our summer house for a few days
- The summer house was a simple wooden construction.
- The story begins when she swaps rain-sodden London for sun-kissed France and moves into the summer house of her publisher.
- As competition for the most impressive summer house flourished, huge mansions took shape among the hills.
- Behind the glittering facade of large casino/hotels along the boardwalk remain large areas of wasteland where small family hotels and summer houses once stood.
- We employed an architect to design our summer house.
- All the rest -- acres of pasture, cleared and grassed, stretches of fertile ground, blocks of noble timber still uncut -- had passed through the hands of mortgage holders, through bank transfers, by devious and tortuous ways, until the title rested in Horace Gower, -- who had promptly built the showy summer house on Cradle Bay to flaunt in his face, so old Poor Man's Rock