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Recent Examples of country house
O’Hara relished playing deluded snobs like this wealthy Manhattanite with artistic ambitions from director Tim Burton’s horror comedy about two dead owners of a country house who want to drive out its new buyers.
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Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026
There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.
—Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
The lawsuit was later dismissed; by then, Lowell was in Anápolis, Brazil, living with a New York ship captain named Leek Bowen in an eleven-room country house.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
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Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026
There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.
—Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
The lawsuit was later dismissed; by then, Lowell was in Anápolis, Brazil, living with a New York ship captain named Leek Bowen in an eleven-room country house.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for country house
Noun
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Sorry to Carl Laemmle, but the U.K.’s great houses — the ones that are used over and over in period dramas — have real history.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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By Madison Roberts and Paris Wilson December 30, 2024 11 Men’s Slippers for Hotel-Worthy Comfort Warm, comfortable, and supportive—all the things a great house shoe should be.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The home here is a ramshackle London town house where a famed painter, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen), is spending his final years in a haze of creative stagnation and lingering renown.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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The Lincoln Park town house vanished almost as quickly as Sasha Adler fell for it.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The rule targets mixed-status households, in which some members are citizens and some are not, and prevents the entire household from receiving housing.—
Laura Turbay,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
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On and on the TaxWatch report goes, listing higher and higher costs of housing, groceries, rent, utilities and child care.—
Steve Bousquet,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20house. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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