country manor

Grand pastoral residence

A country manor is a large, stately residence in a rural setting, historically the principal house of a landed estate.

The term evokes English aristocratic life—sprawling grounds, formal gardens, and centuries of family ownership: They spent weekends at the country manor.

Today it often describes any grand rural property, whether historic or newly built to suggest old-money elegance.

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landed gentry · servants · stately · lord · lady · foxhunt · hunting party · afternoon tea · hedgerows · rolling · hills · gentry · inheritance · library · drawing room · ballroom · ivy · stone

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Opposites
urban vs. rural setting

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Home in tall building

brownstone · tenement · row house · urban loft · walk-up

scale and grandeur

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Wretched small dwelling

shack · hut · cottage · cabin · bungalow

ownership and class

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Government-owned rental dwelling

public housing · housing project · tenement · slum dwelling · social housing

Family

country, manor, countries, countrified, countryside, countrymen, countryman, countrywoman, countrywomen

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