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country houses

country houses is the plural 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.

Questions about country houses

What is country houses the plural of?
Country houses is the plural of country house.

Words near country houses in the dictionary

  1. country gentlemen
  2. country gravy
  3. country ham
  4. country hams
  5. country house
  6. country houses
  7. country Joan
  8. country Joans
  9. country lane
  10. country lanes
  11. country merchant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: country houses (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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