country house

noun

: a house and especially a mansion in the country

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The setting is Hedda and Tesman’s glorious English country house, sometime in the 1950s. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Oct. 2025 The grand country house standing in for Chequers in this episode looks more like Balmoral thanks to its dark gray stone facing. Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025 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 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 24 Oct. 2025.

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