country

Plural: countries

Noun

• A nation or state; the land of a nation.
• a politically organized body of people under a single government
  • "the country's largest manufacturer"
• the territory occupied by a nation
• the people who live in a nation or country
  • "the whole country worshipped him"
• an area outside of cities and towns
  • "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"
• a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
  • "Bible country"
• The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
• An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
• An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
• An area of land of indefinite extent or of more or less definite extent in relation to human occupation, especially characterized by its particular physical features, or its suitability for a particular activity or connected with its population (by race, dialect, culture, etc.) or a person, especially a writer, or their works.
• A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
• The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public.
• Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
• Ellipsis of country music.
• The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
• The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.

Adj

• From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.
• Of or connected to country music.
• Originating in India rather than being imported from abroad.

Examples

• a country festival
• a country singer
• a country song
• He scored big by playing COUNTRY across two premium squares, staking his claim.
• Hikers love the wild country that lies northwest of this river confluence.
• They're mainly a hard rock band, but their new album sounds kinda country to me.
• Things around here are just a little more country than what he's used to.
• Thomas Hardy country
• you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy

Synonyms

area, body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica, rural area, state, country, native, sovereign country, sovereign state

Antonyms

urban area

Related Words

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