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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dacha
noun
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▪ He never brought women to the dacha.
▪ His dacha was home to him.
▪ His dacha was in the woods on the banks of the Moscova river.
▪ Many had the means to purchase a dacha in the countryside.
▪ On the station platform children in leopard spots yawn, and hardy babushkas struggle with loads for their winter dachas.
▪ She looked wonderfully healthy and alert, as if she had just returned from a dacha.
▪ Thoughts of failure preoccupied him on the drive out to his dacha.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dacha

dacha \dacha\ n. [Russian.] a Russian country house, especially a cottage used in the summer. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dacha

from Russian dacha, originally "gift," from Slavic *datja, from PIE *do- "to give" (see donation).

Wiktionary
dacha

n. a Russian villa, or summer house, in the countryside

WordNet
dacha

n. Russian country house

Wikipedia
Dacha

A dacha is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of Russian and other post-Soviet cities. A cottage (, ) or shack serving as a family's main or only home, or an outbuilding, is not considered a dacha, although recently purpose-built dachas have been converted to year-round residences, and vice versa. In some cases, dachas are occupied for part of the year by their owners and rented out to urban residents as summer retreats. People in dachas are colloquially called dachniks ; the term usually refers not only to presence in dacha, but to a whole distinctive lifestyle. The Russian term is often said to have no exact counterpart in English.

Dachas are very common in Russia, and are also widespread in most parts of the former Soviet Union and some countries of the former Eastern Bloc. It was estimated that in 1995 about 25% of Russian families living in large cities had dachas. Most dachas are in colonies of dachas and garden plots near large cities, that have existed since the Soviet era, which consist of numerous small, typically , land plots. They were initially intended only as recreation getaways of city dwellers and for the purpose of growing small gardens for food. Dachas are used today for fishing, hunting, and other leisure activities, and growing garden crops remains popular, still seen as an important part of dacha life.

Dachas originated as small country estates given as a gift by the tsar, and have been popular among the upper and middle classes ever since. During the Soviet era, many dachas were state-owned, and were given to the elite of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). State dachas () continue to be owned by the government of the Russian Federation, for use by the president and other officials. They were extremely popular in the Soviet Union, because people did not have an opportunity to buy land and build a house where they wanted, and also because they lacked other opportunities to spend their time and money.

As the size and type of dacha buildings for ordinary people was severely restricted during the Soviet time, permitted features such as large attics or glazed verandas, became extremely widespread and often oversized. In the period from the 1960s to 1985, these limitations were especially strict: only single-story summer houses without permanent heating and with living areas less than were allowed as second housing (though older dachas that did not meet these requirements continued to exist). In the 1980s, the rules were loosened, and since 1990, all such limitations have been eliminated.

Usage examples of "dacha".

A little flame sprang up revealing a pile of logs arranged for burning, and beyond it the tall form of Dacha wearing a strange headdress and white, priestlike robes, different from those in which he had been clad at the feast.

The Skoda pulled up outside the dacha and Stanski, Anna and frena climbed out.

And each time he and Irena and he met six times a year, more if possible, he had to take particular care and timing to travel to the dacha.

He had already explained about Irena, but the atmosphere in the car as they drove to the dacha had been charged and anxious, as if they each expected a roadblock or a police siren at any moment, and they had hardly spoken.

He wondered for a moment whether he was being led into a trap - then he sensed that the meeting-place was to be one of the many wooden dachas built in the Arkhangelskoe district -summer and week-end homes for prominent members of the Party and the bureaucracy.

SID had investigated, in its time, a number of peculiar reports concerning social and personal behaviour in dachas like the ones dotted through the woods.

He had been found, face-down in the slush, by a senior member of the Central Committee Secretariat, who was cohabiting in his dacha with a woman not his wife.

Doctorat-nauk (emeritus) Rosaleen Artzybachova was discontentedly trying to make the time pass with chess-by-fax games against a variety of opponents from her boring retirement dacha outside of Kiev.

All she need do was reach out and pick up the snapshot of Oreanda Maluta, burnt to a crisp in a conflagration of mysterious origin that ravaged the first dacha built on this parcel of land.

The dacha with the sea-blue tile roof was just outside Yalta, on the Crimean peninsula that jutted, squarish, tailed, south into the Black Sea.

They weren't popped for stealing diesel fuel or building dachas with pilfered lumber.

Iamskoy wore the same wolf-trimmed coat and boots as when Arkady had visited the dacha before, as well as a lamb's wool cap on his bare skull and leather gloves that he pulled on while he talked.

By then he'll be empty and she'll vanish into a new life and that danger will be gone forever and I'll go to my dacha where the Zergeyev hellcat'll be waiting and we'll fight, she calling me every obscenity until I lose my temper and tear her clothes off, maybe use the whip again and she'll fight back and fight back until I fight into her and explode, explode taking her with me sometimes, Prestos how I wish it was every time.

But other men, higher up in the hierarchy, decided who the workers and peasant were, and they themselves lived in ornate dachas and multiroom flats, and had automobiles and drivers… and privileges.

You're not the only person who can pick holes in an expense account, and I'm sure your colleagues will be very interested to know where you got the money to buy that big dacha outside Sevastopol.