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Meanings of estate house in English

Catalan
casa de camp

Houses in the country as opposed to an urban area, especially houses that are large, have substantial property, and are used seasonally.

casa de camp
Usage of estate house in English
1
Are you on your way to your estate house?
Surface detail
2
Geoff and Nobinia Atreides lived in a large estate house with their children, some of whom were in their late teens.
Navigators of Dune
3
Can he tell us who designs the average suburban estate house, which is mass-produced, boring to look at, unimaginative and unexciting?
The Irish Times
4
Madrun and Lazan Door were tossing dice against the steps of Lady Varada's estate house when four masked Seguleh entered the compound.
Orb Sceptre Throne
5
One word comes to mind to sum up East Hall a Georgian estate house on Chapel Road in Delgany, and that is charming.
The Irish Times
6
As they passed the driveway to the estate house, Vanger knocked on the upstairs window and gestured firmly for them to come up.
The girl with the dragon tattoo
7
But the idea of property had excited her; and in the end, in a kind of compensation, I bought her council- estate house for her.
Magic seeds
8
The cost of rebuilding a typical three-bedroom semi-detached estate house in Dublin has risen by 61 per cent since 1997.
The Irish Times
9
They reached a building that looked to have once been a handsome estate house, but now stood almost entirely black beneath countless years of soot.
Orb Sceptre Throne
10
From the outside, number 57 Patrician Villas looks like many estate houses of a certain vintage.
The Irish Times
11
He said in The Irish Times recently: The increase in residential construction is being driven by estate houses, not apartment schemes.
The Irish Times
12
During his first day in the witness box, the 22-year-old said he had never seen the axe around the family's De Zalze Estate house before.
The South African
Translations for estate house