: a Russian country cottage used especially in the summer
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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 Putin could then be forced to retire, like Khrushchev, to a dacha in the countryside.—
Scott D. Sagan,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Mar. 2022 See All Example Sentences for dacha
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Etymology
Russian, from Old Russian, land allotted by a prince; akin to Latin dos dowry — more at date