country estate
noun
A property in the countryside, typically with surrounding grounds and cultivated land to which one or more tenant farms are attached.
- Originally largely devoted to agriculture, but later used principally for recreation..
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Charles Gildon (c1665–1724), writer.
- be hearing things
- beheld
- be hell on
- behemoth
- be here (or have come) to stay
- behest
- behind
- behind bars
- behind closed doors
- behindhand
- behind line
- behind post
- behind someone's back
- behind the bit
- behind the counter
- behind the eight ball
- behind the scenes
- behind the times
- behind time
- be history
- Behn, Aphra
- be hoist with (or by) one's own petard
- behold
- beholden
- beholder