country house

noun

: a house and especially a mansion in the country

Examples of country house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Intensely creepy and increasingly unhinged, Alejandro Amenábar’s supernatural chiller owes much to Kidman’s unwavering commitment as a distressed, shotgun-wielding mother trying to protect her children from the hauntings plaguing their remote country house in ’40s Jersey. —Radhika Seth, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025

Haslingfield Manor in Cambridgeshire isn’t your average country house. —Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025

Archaeologists believe the site was originally Neolithic but was then repurposed several times over the centuries: The Romans created their villa in the same spot, then a Paleo-Christian temple was built over that, then a 15th-century country house was erected here. —Anna Mazurek, AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025

Porter oversaw the maisonette’s completion, sourcing paneling from European townhouses, castles, and country houses to bestow generational gravitas to this brand-new home. —Robert Khederian, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for country house

• boardinghouse
• charterhouse
• clearinghouse
• coffeehouse
• customhouse
• firehouse
• meetinghouse
• motherhouse
• packinghouse
• pilothouse
• powerhouse
• slaughterhouse