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country-house

country-house is the alternative form of country house.

Meaning of country house

Noun

country house (plural country houses)

  1. (UK, especially) 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.
    • Near-synonym: country seat
    Synonyms:
    country seat
  2. (UK, especially) 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.
    • a country house look
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see country, house: a house in the country: one not in town.

Forms of country-house

pluralcountry-houses

Questions about country-house

What is country-house the alternative form of?
Country-house is the alternative form of country house.

Words near country-house in the dictionary

  1. country-dance
  2. country-dances
  3. country-fried
  4. country-fried steak
  5. country-fried steaks
  6. country-house
  7. country-houses
  8. country-punk
  9. country-rock
  10. country-side
  11. country-sides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: country-house (page history and authors); country house (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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