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Definition of Summerhouse
1. Noun. A small roofed building affording shade and rest.
Definition of Summerhouse
1. n. A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer.
Definition of Summerhouse
1. Noun. A house owned not as a primary residence and used during warm weather months of the year. ¹
2. Noun. A house designed to be cool and used as a residence only during warm weather. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Summerhouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summerhouse
Literary usage of Summerhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Things with Simple Tools: A Book for Young Mechanics by Astra Cielo (1916)
"The summerhouse will be an incentive to spend more time in the open air, and
offers a shelter from the sun, giving you a delightful place in which to read ..."
2. The Boys and Girls of Garden City by Jean Dawson (1914)
"CHAPTER XIX IN THE summerhouse " Somebody is having a good time," Mrs. Ward remarked
to Mrs. Elliott as they sat together on the porch after dinner. ..."
3. The Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner: Memories Serious and Light of the Irish by Llewelyn Turner, J. E. Vincent (1903)
"... seafaring training—Sir Llewelyn's first boat the Nautilus—Her iron cut-water
severs a hawser—" Dick the Devil " and " Will summerhouse "—The Gleam—Early ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1892)
"It was a fine rich house, with marble floors and a marble summerhouse on the roof
above her rooms. People said she had made a good bargain with her beauty ..."
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