country house

See also: country-house

English

Alternative forms

country-house

Noun

country house (plural country houses)

(British) 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.
(US) A second home.

Hypernyms

house

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
Swedish: lantställe (sv) n

second home

Finnish: kakkoskoti

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