country gentleman

American  

noun

1. a wealthy man living in his country home or estate.

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country gentleman British  

noun

1. a rich man with an estate in the country

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Etymology

Origin of country gentleman

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

But Philip was also the ultimate salt-of-the-earth English country gentleman.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2021

Stanley Baldwin, then a rising Tory star who posed as a simple country gentleman, looked at the parliament elected in 1918 and claimed to see “hard-faced men who had done well out of the war”.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2018

Ronald Carlile Buxton was a civil engineer and Norfolk country gentleman who in 1965 embarrassed Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson by defeating his foreign secretary, Patrick Gordon-Walker in a by-election at Leyton.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2017

Even in his courtship of Taya, at a bar frequented by raucous SEALs, he is ever the country gentleman.

From Time • Dec. 31, 2014

Sir George—whom, by-the-bye, I have forgotten to describe,—a very big, and very fresh-looking country gentleman, stands before their sofa, coffee-cup in hand, and occasionally puts in a word.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë