country house

See also: country-house

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country house (plural country houses)

  1. (especially British) A house serving as a weekend and holiday residence, used as a retreat from city life; traditionally and archetypically in the country, and especially of wealthy owners.
    Hypernyms: second home < house, home, residence
    Coordinate term: pied-à-terre
    Near-synonym: country seat
    • 1909, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, act 3:
      One of those utterly tedious amusements one only finds at an English country house on an English country Sunday. I don't think any one at all morally responsible for what he or she does at an English country house.
  2. (especially British) Such a house, even as a primary residence and even in an area that is no longer rural, but with an aesthetic in keeping with that traditional distinction of country ways.
    Hypernyms: house, home, residence
    a country house look
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see country,‎ house: a house in the country: one not in town.

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