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bach

noun

Definition of bach

New Zealand

as in cottage

an often small house for recreational or seasonal use maintains a bach in South Island's Fiordland

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Recent Examples of bach Our bach boy Peter continues to have no real conversations with literally anyone, but does manage to (probably) sleep with two women and definitely piss off a third one. — Hannah Rimm, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2020 For summer vacation, from Christmas to February, Kiwis tramp along a Great Walk, or tent near a stream, or drive a campervan from forest to forest, or rent a bach — a beach house — on the coast. — Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019

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Noun

Participants live in cottages on campus and can stay for up to two years.

— Leondra Head, CBS News, 13 July 2026
Originally, the park was supposed to mimic an Old World pastoral landscape, with English cottage scenes and a mill wheel.

— John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 July 2026

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The 61-year-old was treated in Greece for neck and shoulder injuries and friction burns, after a sudden cabin depressurization triggered oxygen masks and a rapid descent.

— Costas Kantouris, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
More than 1,600 feet of private shoreline gives the property the feeling of a world unto itself, while the main cabin and sleeping cabins create something closer to a family compound than a conventional lake house.

— Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026