great house

English

Noun

great house (plural great houses)

  1. A large, luxurious house or mansion, with a sizeable indoor and outdoor staff; especially of properties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United Kingdom and United States.
    Coordinate term: country house
    Near-synonyms: manor house, great hall
    • 1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter 1, in The Small House at Allington, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:
      And now I will speak of the Great House of Allington. After all, it was not very great; nor was it surrounded by much of that exquisite nobility of park appurtenance which graces the habitations of most of our old landed proprietors. But the house itself was very graceful.
  2. (historical) A large complex with many rooms, built for worship by the Anasazi.
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