showplaces

plural of showplace

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for showplaces
Noun
  • Hoop skirts and parasols, mint juleps and columned mansions.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Billionaires are known for throwing their money at super yachts, oceanside mansions, and luxury cars—but some still carry their thrifty habits made before reaching 10-figure net worths.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Back were the villas and the apartments, the chauffeurs and the mistresses swaddled in foreign luxury.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The island’s relaxed energy carries throughout the resort's maze of 29 villas, sloping down a hill towards the beach.
    Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Designed for a Vanderbilt who never moved in, its monumental rooms were plucked from European manors and have somehow remained more or less unchanged for nearly a century.
    Robert Khederian, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Initial reports claimed that armed militias burned hundreds of wealthy landowners’ homes and manors.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Guests can stay in one of 12 luxe tree houses suspended above the Earth for an elevating experience, or in one of the 10 family-friendly haciendas.
    Lisa Greissinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And, at least until recently, the government has proven unwilling or unable to try and storm the castles.
    NPR, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • As the series progressed, Carter went on to construct a highly believable world of Roy, with a sequence of meticulously outfitted penthouses, lofts, vacation homes, and castles, as well as private jets, yachts, a corporate boardroom, and a TV newsroom.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Custom estates and the semi-custom Artisan Series homes allow owners to realize their personal vision of a dream house.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2025
  • From the family-run vineyards and epic estates up north to the sophisticated dude ranches down south, nowhere else but California combines premium vintages and first-class amenities with so many avenues for family-friendly fun.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Beginning around the mid-19th century, middle-class Americans began to idealize the velvety green grass of European manor houses, according to the Smithsonian Institution.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Zebra mussels can completely clog water intake structures and affect public water supplies, power generation and many other industries.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Look to 19th Century France At the same time, many French men and women believed that the end of the Terror and the creation of new governmental structures offered the possibility for political stability and social reconciliation.
    Time, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Showplaces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/showplaces. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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