'Country' definitions:
Definition of 'country'
From: WordNet
noun
A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic]
noun
The territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country, state, land]
noun
The people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country]
noun
An area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country" [syn: country, rural area] [ant: populated area, urban area]
noun
A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" [syn: area, country]
Definition of 'Country'
From: GCIDE
- Country \Coun"try\, a.
- 1. Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. [1913 Webster]
- She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language. --2 Macc. vii. 27. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Country'
From: GCIDE
- Country \Coun"try\ (k?n"tr?), n.; pl. Countries (-tr?z). [F. contr['e]e, LL. contrata, fr. L. contra over against, on the opposite side. Cf. Counter, adv., Contra.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. --Gen. xxxxii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. --Stirling. [1913 Webster]
- Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. [1913 Webster]
- As they walked, on their way into the country. --Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ). [1913 Webster]
- God made the covatry, and man made the town. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. [1913 Webster]
- All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) (a) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. (b) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs. [1913 Webster]
- Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion.
- To put one's self upon the country, or {To throw one's self upon the country}, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'country'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acres,
- agrarian,
- agrestic,
- agricultural,
- airspace,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- arable land,
- Arcadian,
- area,
- belt,
- blue-ribbon jury,
- boondocks,
- bucolic,
- campestral,
- clay,
- clod,
- confines,
- continental shelf,
- corridor,
- countrified,
- countryside,
- crust,
- department,
- dirt,
- district,
- division,
- dry land,
- dust,
- earth,
- environs,
- farm,
- fatherland,
- freehold,
- glebe,
- grand jury,
- grassland,
- ground,
- heartland,
- hinterland,
- home,
- homeland,
- hung jury,
- inquest,
- jury,
- jury list,
- jury of inquest,
- jury of matrons,
- jury panel,
- land,
- landholdings,
- lithosphere,
- lowland,
- marginal land,
- marl,
- milieu,
- mold,
- mother country,
- motherland,
- mountains,
- nation,
- native land,
- neighborhood,
- offshore rights,
- outback,
- outland,
- panel,
- part,
- parts,
- pastoral,
- petit jury,
- place,
- police jury,
- power,
- precincts,
- premises,
- provinces,
- provincial,
- purlieus,
- quarter,
- real estate,
- real property,
- realm,
- region,
- regolith,
- rural,
- rustic,
- salient,
- section,
- sessions,
- sod,
- soil,
- space,
- special jury,
- state,
- sticks,
- subaerial deposit,
- subsoil,
- terra,
- terra firma,
- terrain,
- territory,
- the country,
- three-mile limit,
- topsoil,
- trial jury,
- twelve-mile limit,
- upland,
- venire,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- wilderness,
- woodland,
- woods,
- zone
Words containing 'Country'
- Countries,
- Down the country,
- up country,
- Conclusion to the country,
- Country Club,
- Country Estates,
- Country Homes,
- Country Knolls,
- Country Walk,
- Country bank,
- Country cousin,
- Country seat,
- Cross country,
- Key of a country,
- Low Countries,
- Mother country,
- Town and Country,
- across the country,
- african country,
- asian country,
- back country,
- balkan country,
- bluegrass country,
- buffer country,
- commonwealth country,
- country and western,
- country borage,
- country dancing,
- country doctor,
- country gentleman,
- country house,
- country music,
- country of origin,
- country people,
- country store,
- developing country,
- european country,
- foreign country,
- high country,
- north country,
- old country,
- scandinavian country,
- up-country,
- west country,
- Country Club Estates,
- Country Club Heights,
- Country Club Heights, IN,
- Country Club Hills,
- Country Club, CA,
- Country Club, FL,
- Country Club, MO,
- Country Estates, FL,
- Country Homes, WA,
- Country Knolls, NY,
- Country Lake Estates,
- Country Life Acres,
- Country Walk, FL,
- Country-base,
- Country-dance,
- Hill Country Village,
- Town 'n' Country,
- Town and Country, MO,
- Town and Country, WA,
- central american country,
- country-bred,
- country-style,
- cross-country,
- north american country,
- south american country,
- Country Club Estates, GA,
- Country Club Hills, IL,
- Country Club Hills, MO,
- Country Lake Estates, NJ,
- Country Life Acres, MO,
- Hill Country Village, TX,
- Lake Almanor Country Club,
- San Diego Country Estates,
- Town 'n' Country, FL,
- cross-country jumping,
- cross-country riding,
- cross-country skiing,
- Lake Almanor Country Club, CA,
- San Diego Country Estates, CA,
- To put one's self upon the country,
- To throw one's self upon the country,
- organization of petroleum-exporting countries