Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family
Usage examples of "stately home".
He lived in just one small corner of his stately home and communicated with his servants through notes passed to him through a special message box cut into the door to his rooms.
She gestured out through the window, at the terrace of rosebushes and the garden beyond the ha-ha, the walls and trees and the avenue leading uphill to the stately home.
When Iphiginia glanced over her shoulder, she realized she could not even see the stately home any longer.
From the look of the place, Jacqueline guessed it had been a hotel from its inception rather than a stately home converted to that function.
She had anticipated something altogether more grand, something colonnaded and freestanding, something like a stately home which arrested the flow and huddle of cramped London brick.
Some day, someone might want to buy this barn and make it a stately home again.
It was mid-afternoon by the time he had bathed and shaved and dressed, so he and Julie went out to have something to eat in one of the spacious tea rooms in the fashionable Rua Garrett, where the settees were comfortably cushioned and the waitresses were dressed in black and white like maids in an English stately home.
Me and Melon are attending a weekend pony club that's being held at a stately home over Byfield way.
We had planned the trip together, poring over maps and guidebooks, discussing the best route from Sussex to Scotland, locating each stately home and historic garden.
Rubber crunched across loose chippings as a grey Bentley proceeded with formal dignity towards the house, then drew to a stately halt outside the stately home.