country house

See also: country-house

English

Alternative forms

• country-house

Noun

country house (plural country houses)

1. (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.

2. (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