Country

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A nation or state.
  • noun. The territory of a nation or state; land.
  • noun. The people of a nation or state; populace.
  • noun. The land of a person's birth or citizenship.
  • noun. A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture.
  • noun. An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The people of a district who are eligible for jury service.
  • noun. A jury.
  • noun. Country music.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or typical of the country.
  • adjective. Of or relating to country music.
  • idiom. (in country) In Vietnam during the period of US military operations there.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The parts of a cricket-field covered by the out-fielders; the long- or deep-field.
  • noun. A region; a district of indefinite extent present to the view or thought, being or considered as the locality of residence, travel, exploration, or other action, or of description: as, a new country; a wild country; a rugged country; an unexplored country; the countries of central Asia.
  • noun. The territory of a nation; an independent state, or a region once independent, and still distinct in name, population, or institutions, as England, Scotland, and Wales in Great Britain, the several states of the Austrian and German empires, etc.
  • noun. The rural parts of a region, as opposed to cities or towns.
  • noun. The place of one's nativity or citizenship; one's native soil; the land of one's nationality or allegiance by birth or adoption.
  • noun. The inhabitants of a country; the people; the public.
  • noun. Specifically In law, the public at large, as represented by a jury: as, a trial by the country; his plea concluded to the country (that is, it ended by requiring the submission of the issue to a jury).
  • noun. In law, any place other than a court: as, a deed in the country, as opposed to an alienation by record—that is, in court.
  • noun. In mining, the rock adjacent to the lode; the formation in which any mineral vein or deposit is inclosed. Sometimes called country-rock.
  • noun. Nautical, that part of an apartment on board ship used in common by all officers of the same mess: as, the ward-room country.
  • Pertaining or peculiar to one's own country; national; native.
  • Pertaining or belonging to the country or to the rural parts of a region; being or living in the country; rural; rustic: as, country roads: country customs; a country gentleman; country cousins; a country life; the country party, as opposed to the city party.
  • Characteristic of the country or rural regions; hence, rustic; rude; unpolished: as, country manners.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic.
  • adjective. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane.
  • adjective. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
  • noun. A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
  • noun. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
  • noun. The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
  • noun. The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
  • noun. The rock through which a vein runs.
  • noun. See under Conclusion.
  • noun. to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.
  • noun. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. From the countryside or connected with it.
  • adjective. Of or connected to country music.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an area outside of cities and towns
  • noun. the territory occupied by a nation
  • noun. a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
  • noun. the people who live in a nation or country
  • noun. a politically organized body of people under a single government
  • Word Usage
    "Born in an American Stalinist medical facility**** to foreign parents, he spent his early years nomadically, drifting from country to country***** as his feckless father moved the family in search of lasting employment******."
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