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.

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  • noun a Russian villa, or summer house, in the countryside

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  • noun Russian country house

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Russian, gift, land, country house; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Russian дача, from дать ("to give")

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Examples

  • The vanquished, if they are lucky, escape abroad or putter away their remaining years in dacha gardens.

    Challenge Match 2005

  • The vanquished, if they are lucky, escape abroad or putter away their remaining years in dacha gardens.

    Challenge Match 2005

  • The vanquished, if they are lucky, escape abroad or putter away their remaining years in dacha gardens.

    Challenge Match 2005

  • 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.

    AND NOW, THE 'DACHA WAR' 2007

  • 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.

    An American Life Ronald Reagan 1990

  • 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.

    An American Life Ronald Reagan 1990

  • 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.

    An American Life Ronald Reagan 1990

  • 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.

    An American Life Ronald Reagan 1990

  • 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.

    WN.com - Articles related to Why The May 10, 2010 Philippine Polls Failed: The PCOS Forensics 2010

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  • "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