country house
Americannoun
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country houses
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of country house
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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He was finally arrested in May 2011 at his cousin's country house in northern Serbia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“That wasn’t a goal ... I’m a pretty simple person. My goal was literally to be on the Opry, have a hit song, little country house in the woods, some land, a tractor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
A stable conversion nestled in the landscaped gardens of a Grade I listed country house in Devon.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
The long, digressive rural idyll “NN” follows a sophisticated city dweller’s return to the village of his childhood country house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
If driven from their country house, there was but one safe refuge for them—behind the British lines in Boston.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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