great house

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Recent Examples of great house Set in the years before the events of Martin’s novels, the production follows the great houses of Westeros as ambition, family bonds and succession collide during the reign of the Mad King. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 May 2026 There stood the great house with all its windows robed in silver. Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026 Arnault did not merely preserve a single great house after a founder’s passing — a feat rare enough in creative industries. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2025 Salesforce is still a great house, but the neighborhood is deteriorating. Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for great house
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Noun
  • The property’s manor house, once a Goddard College library and event space, now serves as a rehearsal space for the Goddard Institute of Dramatic Arts.
    Olivia Fletcher, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Guests can stay at a suite in the 18-bedroom main manor house, the cozier 11-bedroom Garden House, or one of the property’s individual suites.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Where to stay Following the success of its sister resort in Sumba (to the west of Rote), the 21-villa Nihi Rote and Hospitality Academy on Bo’a Beach opens the renowned surf sites to top-end travelers.
    Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The same might be said of Stealing Beauty, which starred Liv Tyler as a 19-year-old American spending the summer at a Tuscan villa with the culturati friends of her poet mother, who has recently committed suicide.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The movie will shoot in a castle near the famous Loch Ness, just outside Inverness in Scotland.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2026
  • For one thing, a positive surface swab still wouldn’t confirm the castle was the source.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Erik Menendez and his brother, Lyle, serving life terms for the 1989 fatal shootings of their parents in the family's Beverly Hills mansion, had their parole hearing moved up 17 months, although authorities didn't say why.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s mansion was nearly burgled.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Situated at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, Marilyn purchased the 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival-style hacienda for $75,000 in early 1962.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Noun
  • In a California town called Anzar in the late-19th century, Paulette is living with a local magnate’s eccentric son who’s fascinated by the tramps gathering outside his manor.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
  • That year also saw the demolition of the nearby Royal Lodge manor, and Wyatville used some of its materials in the new building, according to the Royal Collection Trust (RCT).
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • When Meghan was a working royal, the palace essentially controlled her life and public image.
    Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Our home, a 3-story, 11-bedroom palace with with an arcade and a slide between floors three and two, couldn’t have been more perfect for our group.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • In 1948, the family moved back to Manhattan, to a town house on the Upper East Side.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Developer Jib Felter of AAG Farms, LLC wants to build 44 town house units and retail space for multiple tenants at the northeast corner of 133rd Street and Black Bob Road.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026

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“Great house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20house. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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