country house

See also: country-house

English

Alternative forms

• country-house

Noun

country house (plural country houses)

1. A house in the country: one not in town.
   1. (especially British, wealthy) Such a house serving as a weekend and holiday residence, used as a retreat from city life.

      Hypernyms: second home < house, home, residence

      • 1909, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, act 3:

        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.

   2. (especially British, wealthy) Such a house even as a primary residence but with an aesthetic in keeping with that traditional distinction.

      a country house look

Translations

residence

• Armenian: ամառանոց (hy) (amaṙanocʻ), դաչա (hy) (dačʻa)
• Dutch: landhuis (nl) n, buitenhuis (nl) n
• Finnish: kesämökki (fi)
• French: maison de campagne (fr) f
• German: Landhaus (de) n
• Polish: wiejski dom m
• Portuguese: casa de campo f, vila (pt) f
• Spanish: casa de campo (es) f, casalicio solariego m, finca (es) f, casal (es) m
• Swedish: lantställe (sv) n

second home

• Finnish: kakkoskoti

See also

• dacha
• great house
• holiday home
• manor house
• summerhouse
• villa
• winterhouse