country house

noun

: a house and especially a mansion in the country

Examples of country house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Schiaparelli opened couture week in the basement of the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, an unusually dark location for a show, but a nod to a dream of Daniel Roseberry’s: to find a lost couture collection below Elsa Schiaparelli’s country house. Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 25 June 2024 Murphy now lives in an 1820 country house in Hadlyme. Ellen Lessard, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2024 Lundies has achieved the holy grail of the small hotel: an atmosphere of an intimate country house that is as private or clubbable as the mood takes you. Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023 While glimpses of Blenheim Palace, particularly the Great Court and Water Terraces, are most prominently highlighted in the spinoff series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, the 18th-century country house also appears as Queen Charlotte’s residence in season 3 of Bridgerton. Kayla Keegan, Peoplemag, 15 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for country house 

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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 7 Jul. 2024.

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