country house

Definition of country housenext

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Recent Examples of country house Hulu Tobe Hooper’s masterwork follows a group of extremely unlucky teens who pick up an unhinged hitchhiker (Edwin Neal) and wind up at a rundown country house. Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026 Head to Lanhydrock—a quintessential Cornish country house set across nearly 1,000 acres of glorious gardens and woodlands. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 Removed from an Oxfordshire country house in 1931 and shipped across the Atlantic piece by piece, the lavish Rococo dining room remains on display today as one of the museum’s standout period rooms. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 June 2026 Related Stories In the former, Seydoux plays Lucy, an avant-garde musician who’s just moved into a country house near Munich with her husband Philip (Laurence Rupp) and son. Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for country house
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Noun
  • The property is one of the Caribbean's few remaining plantation great houses and one of the only Barbadian producers still bottling its own single casks—visitors can even ride a heritage railway through the grounds.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • There's great house drama (including a full house screaming match after Jessie's eviction and Jerry dubbing Dan as Judas).
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • National developer Quarterra has filed early plans to build Emblem Meridian, a 250-unit apartment and town house project near Eagle and Victory roads.
    Chadd Cripe. Produced with AI assistance, Idaho Statesman, 23 June 2026
  • Ten millennial moms sat around the kitchen island of a town house in Carroll Gardens, eating crudités, nachos, and popcorn.
    Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Local advocates are pushing prefab even further, pitching off‑grid cottage villages powered by solar and advanced water recycling — an affordable, sustainable vision that may test Altadena’s appetite for denser housing.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • The researcher said that part of the reason so many people with mental health issues landed in jail was related to a lack of mental health and housing resources outside the jail, which could have prevented some bookings.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026

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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20house. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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