country seat noun

n [C] UK

Definition

a country house and a large piece of land surrounding it

Lady Castleton has a flat near Westminster, but her country seat is in Yorkshire.

(Definition of country seat noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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