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Noun: stately home
Usage: Brit
  1. A mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family
    "Tourists flocked to visit the stately home and its beautiful gardens"

Derived forms: stately homes

Type of: hall, manse [archaic], mansion, mansion house, residence

Encyclopedia: Stately home