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词汇 country seat
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Definition of country seat in English:

country seat

noun
British
  • A large country house and estate belonging to an aristocratic family.

    (贵族的)乡间邸宅,庄园

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They spent as much time in their town houses as in their country seats; they were as much at home with the wealthy elite in London as with their rural neighbours.
    • She also made remarkable changes to her country seat at Sandleford Priory, near Newbury in Berkshire.
    • They were on intimate terms with the Earl of Derby, whose country seat was Knowsley Hall (six miles east of Liverpool).
    • He was the epitome of the cockney wide boy but what a shock to the system of his new found well-to-do relatives when he inherited a country seat and peerage.
    • Others, however, illustrate his decision during the 1940s to transform his country seat into a museum.
    • They would not be homeless if they lost the apartment, where they have lived since marrying in 1979, as they have a luxury country seat in Gloucestershire.
    • By that time too he set out to create for himself a country seat.
    • Meanwhile, the furious James I revoked Dudley's travel licence in 1607 and, when the renegade failed to return to England, sequestered the estates of Kenilworth, his country seat.
    • Espenson Hall had been the country seat of the Earls of Kendrick for seven generations now.
    • He was scouting for a country seat for a client who wanted something truly grand, particularly to house his library of 100,000 books.
    • With his country seat in the Borders, and a town house on the corner of Park Lane and Piccadilly, he was numbered among Britain's social elite.
    • His successor as Secretary to the Navy was so proud of his collection that he built an entire wing on to his country seat in Sussex especially to house them.
    • In 1806, what appeared to be a simple, even naive romance novel was written by a fireside at the country seat of an English landowner in Sligo.
    • He was now an author of world renown, a baronet, the friend of kings and princes and since 1821, Laird of Abbotsford, his new country seat in the Borders.
    • The Manor was more easily comparable to a Ritz Hotel set in the countryside than to any traditional English family country seat.

Definition of country seat in US English:

country seat

nounˈkəntri sitˈkəntrē sēt
British
  • A large country house and estate belonging to an aristocratic family.

    (贵族的)乡间邸宅,庄园

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Manor was more easily comparable to a Ritz Hotel set in the countryside than to any traditional English family country seat.
    • With his country seat in the Borders, and a town house on the corner of Park Lane and Piccadilly, he was numbered among Britain's social elite.
    • She also made remarkable changes to her country seat at Sandleford Priory, near Newbury in Berkshire.
    • By that time too he set out to create for himself a country seat.
    • Others, however, illustrate his decision during the 1940s to transform his country seat into a museum.
    • He was scouting for a country seat for a client who wanted something truly grand, particularly to house his library of 100,000 books.
    • He was now an author of world renown, a baronet, the friend of kings and princes and since 1821, Laird of Abbotsford, his new country seat in the Borders.
    • They were on intimate terms with the Earl of Derby, whose country seat was Knowsley Hall (six miles east of Liverpool).
    • Meanwhile, the furious James I revoked Dudley's travel licence in 1607 and, when the renegade failed to return to England, sequestered the estates of Kenilworth, his country seat.
    • They spent as much time in their town houses as in their country seats; they were as much at home with the wealthy elite in London as with their rural neighbours.
    • He was the epitome of the cockney wide boy but what a shock to the system of his new found well-to-do relatives when he inherited a country seat and peerage.
    • His successor as Secretary to the Navy was so proud of his collection that he built an entire wing on to his country seat in Sussex especially to house them.
    • Espenson Hall had been the country seat of the Earls of Kendrick for seven generations now.
    • They would not be homeless if they lost the apartment, where they have lived since marrying in 1979, as they have a luxury country seat in Gloucestershire.
    • In 1806, what appeared to be a simple, even naive romance novel was written by a fireside at the country seat of an English landowner in Sligo.
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