Country

Quick meaning: Country is a noun meaning The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.

Meaning

The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.

More Meanings

1. (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
2. (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
3. The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public.
4. Ellipsis of country music.
5. (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
6. (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
7. (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.

Example Sentences

I was borne and brought up in the Countrie, and amidst husbandry[…].

We walk along flat, open country, red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees[…].

These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.

It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.

Word Forms

• countries
• countrey
• countre
• countrie
• counterie
• counthry
• countrier
• countriest

Synonyms for country

Depending on context, synonyms include native, state, area, land, nation, nationality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nation, commonwealth, nationality, folk, rural, area.

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