country house

noun

: a house and especially a mansion in the country

Examples of country house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Housed between an airy, floor-to-ceiling Library in his Gianni Botsford designed West London home, and his 18th Century country house in Sussex, these town and country libraries contrast with each other. Grace Banks, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 Known as Hales Hall Lane, the charming country house is the surviving wing of a massive Tudor house built in 1478 by Sir James Hobart, the attorney general to King Henry VII. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2024 The first voice in the book belongs to Nina Fraser, 20 years old and spending the weekend with her controlling boyfriend, Simon Jordan, at his parents’ secluded Vermont country house. Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024 The year is 1957, and the setting is a tranquil country house, where Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver), the founder of the company that bears his name, awakes beside his beloved. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023 Like The Extinction of Irena Rey, Cosmos features guests staying at a country house in Poland, utterly obsessed with odd clues and discerning patterns and meaning around them. Nathan Jeffers, Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024 In 2013, the couple, who are based in New York, built themselves a grand, neo-Classical country house in Millbrook — an ideal home for celebrating the holidays. Tim McKeough, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023 By the time the picture shifts from monochrome to color, in the early 1970s, Lenny and Felicia have been married for years, with three children and a Connecticut country house to go with their Upper West Side penthouse. Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023 The talks, which took place at Filoli estate, a historic country house in the Silicon Valley community of Woodside, come ahead of a potentially rocky geopolitical year during which Taiwan and the U.S. will hold presidential elections. Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023

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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 27 Apr. 2024.

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