Dacha

Quick meaning: Dacha is a noun meaning A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

Meaning

A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

Example Sentences

Here the dachi are large and sumptuously furnished.

The impact of the city was evidenced by the growing number of summer dachi and rising land values, […]

The belt is full of dachi, i.e., summer villas, all now closed. […] Most of the dachi are small; but some large, sumptuous, and more securely fenced, a few with iron palisades to insure privacy. […] There are no roads in the environs of Odessa, except among the dachi by the shore.

This was a great rambling wooden house, fashioned, like most of the Muscovish dachi, or country houses, in the form of a square main building in the centre, flanked by a wing on each side which came forward in a semicircle, like a man’s outstretched arms, as though to embrace the approaching visitors.

Word Forms

• dachas
• dachi

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include datcha, dacha-saltee, dhabba, dedushka, dukhaun, dosshouse.

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