dacha
pronunciation
How to pronounce dacha in British English:
UK [ˈdætʃə]
How to pronounce dacha in American English:
US [ˈdɑtʃə]
-
- Noun:
- Russian country house
Word Origin
- dacha (n.)
- from Russian dacha, originally "gift," from Slavic *datja, from PIE *do- "to give" (see donation).
Example
- 1. Further afield there are museums and sports halls and even the dacha where brezhnev used to entertain visitors .
- 2. So on a snowy moscow day , our team left the city for the drive to putin 's presidential dacha .
- 3. Mr khrennikov had a huge budget which was spent on building specialapartments and dacha compounds for composers .
- 4. It is reflected even today in what is possibly the most prosperous period in russian history , in the prevalence of potatoes and other staple crops grown on private dacha plots .
- 5. Soviet president mikhail gorbachev 's top military and secret police officials , concluding that his reforms would destroy the union , detained mr. gorbachev at his dacha and announced that a state of emergency committee had taken control .