country house

country house

English

Noun

country house (plural country houses)

1. (Britain) A weekend and holiday residence, located outside of urban areas, used as a retreat from city life.
   • 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. (US) A second home.

Hypernyms

• house

Translations

residence

Armenian: ամառանոց (hy) (amaṙanocʿ), դաչա (hy) (dačʿa) Dutch: landhuis (nl) n Finnish: kesämökki (fi)

French: maison de campagne (fr) f German: Landhaus (de) n Portuguese: casa de campo f, vila (pt) f

second home

Finnish: kakkoskoti