: a Russian country cottage used especially in the summer
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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 The retreat’s history as a vacation destination for Russia’s top officials dates back to the time of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who had a dacha – or summer house – built in the area, according to the Russian Presidential Property Management Department, the body that manages the holiday complex.—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 July 2024 Putin could then be forced to retire, like Khrushchev, to a dacha in the countryside.—Scott D. Sagan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2022 Then, without warning, a delegation of Kremlin hard-liners from the military and the K.G.B. arrived at the door of his dacha, having cut off his phones.—Marilyn Berger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 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
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