country squire
Provincial estate owner
A country squire is a gentleman landowner in a rural area, typically one who owns a substantial estate and plays a prominent role in local affairs.
The term evokes English country life—a man of means who hunts, manages his lands, and serves as a pillar of his community: He lived the life of a country squire, hosting hunts and sitting on the parish council.
The image carries connotations of comfortable wealth, conservative values, and pastoral gentility.
- landedCame to rest
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
- gentryHighborn but not noble
- manorLanded aristocratic residence
- estateProperty and grounds
old money · gentleman · rural · hunting · tweed · parish · fox hunting · aristocrat · foxhunt · hounds · tenant · acres · pastoral · magistrate · horse · stables · riding boots · hedgerows
- landed gentrylanded gentry, lord of the manor, estate owner, landowner, gentleman farmer
- countrysidefarmhouse, farm, barns, farmyard, barn
- English Countrysidecottages, village green, village fete, farmhouses, thatched cottage
- nobilityking, queen, prince, princess, duke
- rural peoplefarmer, villagers, farmhand, farmworker, farmers
- country life fictionfarm life, rustic life, provincial life, rural community, rural idyll
country squirepeasant
Low-status agricultural laborer
tenant farmer · farm laborer · serf · cottager · villein
country squireman about town
Fashionable social figure
sophisticate · social climber · bon vivant · dandy · courtier
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