COUNTRY HOUSE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does country house mean? 

• COUNTRY HOUSE (noun)
  The noun COUNTRY HOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country

  Familiarity information: COUNTRY HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTRY HOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("country house" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "country house"):

chateau (an impressive country house (or castle) in France)

dacha (Russian country house)

shooting box; shooting lodge (a small country house used by hunters during the shooting season)

summer house (a country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summer)

villa (pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds)

villa (country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard)

 Context examples 

For the rest, his house is full of butlers, footmen, maidservants, and the usual overfed, underworked staff of a large English country house.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some years ago this country house, Yoxley Old Place, was taken by an elderly man, who gave the name of Professor Coram.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will see, Mr. Utterson, said Poole, admitting the visitor, as he spoke, into a large, low-roofed, comfortable hall paved with flags, warmed (after the fashion of a country house) by a bright, open fire, and furnished with costly cabinets of oak.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Miss Crawford was not entirely free from similar apprehensions, though they arose principally from doubts of her sister's style of living and tone of society; and it was not till after she had tried in vain to persuade her brother to settle with her at his own country house, that she could resolve to hazard herself among her other relations.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I was invited to a week-end gathering at the country house of a cabinet minister.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And all the time this quiet country house of yours is the centre of half the mischief in England, and the sporting squire the most astute secret-service man in Europe.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)