1. (n.)country a state or nation: European countries.
2. country the territory of a nation.
3. country the people of a district, state, or nation.
4. country the land of one's birth or citizenship.
5. country rural districts, as opposed to cities or towns.
6. country any considerable territory demarcated by topographical conditions, by a distinctive population, etc.
7. country the public at large, as represented by a jury.
8. (adj.)country of, from, or characteristic of the country; rural.
9. country rude; unpolished; rustic: country manners.
10. country of, from, or pertaining to a particular country.
11. country Obs. of one's own country.
Etymology: (1955–60)
Definition of 'Country'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic 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"
2. (noun)country, state, land the territory occupied by a nation "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
3. (noun)nation, land, country 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"
4. (noun)country, rural area an area outside of cities and towns "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"
5. (noun)area, country a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some specialpurpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"
1. (adj)Country pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city
2. (adj)Country destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, countrymanners
3. (adj)Country pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country
4. (adverb)Country 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
5. (adverb)Country rural regions, as opposed to a city or town
6. (adverb)Country 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
7. (adverb)Country a jury, as representing the citizens of a country
8. (adverb)Country the inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn
9. (adverb)Country the rock through which a vein runs