Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Russian country house or villa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a Russian country house, especially a cottage used in the summer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
Russian villa , orsummer house , in thecountryside
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Russian country house
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The vanquished, if they are lucky, escape abroad or putter away their remaining years in dacha gardens.
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The vanquished, if they are lucky, escape abroad or putter away their remaining years in dacha gardens.
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The vanquished, if they are lucky, escape abroad or putter away their remaining years in dacha gardens.
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But critics contend that his so-called dacha war underscores how property rights remain hostage to political winds -- and that the best defense is to be rich and powerful.
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The dinner at the Tsarist palace they styled a dacha was an historic occasion between our two countries and deserves to be recorded for posterity.
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The dinner at the Tsarist palace they styled a dacha was an historic occasion between our two countries and deserves to be recorded for posterity.
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The dinner at the Tsarist palace they styled a dacha was an historic occasion between our two countries and deserves to be recorded for posterity.
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The dinner at the Tsarist palace they styled a dacha was an historic occasion between our two countries and deserves to be recorded for posterity.
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These measures have been dubbed the dacha amnesty, and I think this is perfectly fair.
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These measures have been dubbed the dacha amnesty, and I think this is perfectly fair.
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john commented on the word dacha
"Derived from the verb 'to give,' the word 'dacha' was present in Old Russian from the eleventh century, but by the seventeenth century it tended to denote specifically land given out to servitors by the state"
- Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha
October 15, 2007