country gentleman
a wealthy man living in his country home or estate.
Origin of country gentleman
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How to use country gentleman in a sentence
If he had been permitted to settle down in England as he wished, as a country gentleman, would this have satisfied him?
Napoleon's Young Neighbor | Helen Leah ReedThe life within is the ideally tranquil existence of an English country gentleman.
If I was once settled down, I could live as well on fifteen hundred a year as any country gentleman in Ireland.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys | Anthony TrollopeWho would call Webster the meanest of mankind because he had an absurd desire to live like an English country gentleman?
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI | John LordHe seemed to me the beau ideal of a country gentleman: nothing less than this, and something more.
The Late Miss Hollingford | Rosa Mulholland
British Dictionary definitions for country gentleman
a rich man with an estate in the country
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