country house

noun

: a house and especially a mansion in the country

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And shortly before Starovoit’s suicide, the vice governor of the Leningrad region was found dead with a gunshot wound in a country house. Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025 Photographer Sam Rock took over Wolterton Hall to shoot the campaign faces around the large country house, from the drawing rooms and bedrooms to the green fields. Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2025 The Reading Chronicle reported in August 2024 that signs for Coopers Chase Retirement Village were spotted at the Englefield Estate in West Berkshire, an Elizabethan country house that has been the site of other popular movies and shows, including The Crown and The King’s Speech. Francesca Gariano, People.com, 30 Aug. 2025 The seniors’ residence, called Coopers Chase, is itself a kind of fantasy, converted from a pile of an English country house that is not quite Downton Abbey but close enough. Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for country house

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of country house was in the 14th century

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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/country%20house. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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