stately home
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The stately homes of England How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand, Tho' the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the guilt Off the gingerbread."
- "The tax man's taken all my dough And left me in my stately home Lazing on a sunny afternoon"
- "'There's just something nice about the idea that you can move without being seen - that you can go down there and come up here. I grew up in a stately home,' he continued without a trace of boastfulness, 'and there actually was a secret passage. [...]'"
Usage
- British usage