great houses

noun

Definition of great housesnext
plural of great house
as in manor houses

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  1. villas
  2. castles
  3. mansions
  4. estates
Noun
  • Though the villas weren’t designed based on ADA requirements, the staff is incredibly accommodating and their focus on guest comfort is apparent.
    Megan Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
  • This 400-acre property in the exclusive North Sound is villas and vacation homes first by design, giving it a low-density, community-style feel that offers visitors supreme seclusion.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of villas
Noun
  • Aging mansions, castles, stagecoaches, distraught women in nightgowns, and a madman in an asylum are all present and accounted for.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Lebanon is full of antiquities like the Greco-Roman ruins, Crusader castles and Ottoman architecture, but some have been damaged in the Israel-Hezbollah war.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of castles
Noun
  • Tracking shots through vast mansions, majestic overhead shots of the stag hunt and water lapping at the camera lens as a French galley slowly sinks into the ocean serve to immerse the audience in the film’s 19th century European world.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Montgomery officials say the need for such assistance is pervasive, even in one of the Washington region’s wealthiest counties, where large mansions and pristine golf courses are a short drive away from neighborhoods where going to a food shelter is a regular routine.
    Katie Shepherd, Baltimore Sun, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of mansions
Noun
  • The eco-friendly bungalow, enveloped by lush tea estates, has been restored to its former glory by a collaboration between Uga and renowned Sri Lankan architect Channa Daswatte.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Yet by the mid to late 18th century, early Americans began to embrace upholstered furniture, silk window treatments, and elaborate wallpapers, ranging from damasks and chinoiseries to large-scale, non-repeating murals like those seen at the Schuyler and Van Rensselaer estates in New York.
    Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of estates
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