dacha

noun

da·​cha ˈdä-chə How to pronounce dacha (audio)
also ˈda-
Synonyms of dachanext
: a Russian country cottage used especially in the summer

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During the long Russian winters, Joseph Stalin would gather colleagues at his dacha, in the birch forest outside Moscow. — John Kenney, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2026 Nearby, Antonina, who learned all about gardening from her grandmother at the family dacha long ago, is showing her preschool son Daniel how to remove weeds from his little box. — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026 Assad may melt away into exile in a lavish row of Moscow dachas, and his hollow autocracy may crumble fast. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024 Yevgeny, 24, quit his job as a mechanic and is hiding at a relative’s dacha far from Moscow. — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for dacha

Word History

Etymology

Russian, from Old Russian, land allotted by a prince; akin to Latin dos dowry — more at date

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of dacha was in 1896

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