stately home

1. 1.

   a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family

   Broadermansion

   United Kingdom

Questions about stately home

What does stately home mean?

stately home means "a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family".

Is stately home a common word?

stately home is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.