country house
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.28 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
British usage
noun
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.
British usage
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see country, house: a house in the country: one not in town.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: country seat"
- "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."
- "a country house look"
Usage
- British usage