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country
/ˈkʌntɹi/
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What does country mean?
noun
- The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
- A large area regarded as distinct from other areas, e.g. because it is inhabited by a specific group of people
- An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
More meanings (10)
noun
- 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.
- (informal) 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.
adjective
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
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Of course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel through.
We should recollect that the extent of the military force must, at all events, be regulated by the resources of the country.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
This was a good opportunity to see the country, too, and the more I saw of it, the better I liked it.
There were few birds in this part of the forest, for birds love the open country where there is plenty of sunshine.