countryseat

American  

[kuhn-tree-seet] / ˈkʌn triˌsit /

noun

British.

1. a country mansion or estate, especially one belonging to a distinguished family and large enough to accommodate house parties, hunt meetings, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of countryseat

First recorded in 1575–85; country + seat

Example Sentences

From the sumptuous isolation of his 70-room countryseat in Surrey, Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 70, told BBC tellyviewers how awful it was to be rich.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the driver pointed out to them the countryseat, the park of which stretched away from the abbey, and he advised them to take a little path and follow the walls surrounding it.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

"Wister's Big House" was the first countryseat in Germantown.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

Loudoun was built in 1801 by Thomas Armat as a countryseat for his son, Thomas Wright Armat.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

Others desiring to live more nearly in the manner of their English forbears in the mother country chose to make an elaborate countryseat their year-round place of residence.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank