Definitions of country [ˈkʌn tri]

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Definition of 'country'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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 special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
"it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"

Definition of 'country'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) country
an area of land with its own government and culture
his love for his country; Chile, Peru, and other South American countries

2. country
a type of music from the rural U.S.
listening to country music stations

3. country
an area where people do or like a particular activity
farming/basketball/ski country

Definition of 'country'

Webster Dictionary

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, country manners

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

Translation of 'country'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: any of the nations of the world; the land occupied by a nation Canada is a larger country than Spain.
Afrikaans: land	Arabic: بَلَـد، قُطـر	Bulgarian: страна
Brazilian: país	Czech: země	German: das Land
Danish: land	Greek: χώρα	Spanish: país
Estonian: riik	Farsi: کشور	Finnish: maa
French: pays	Hebrew: מְדִינָה	Hindi: देश
Croatian: zemlja, država	Hungarian: ország	Indonesian: negara
Icelandic: (þjóð)land	Italian: paese	Japanese: 国
Korean: 나라	Lithuanian: šalis, kraštas	Latvian: zeme; valsts
Malay: negara	Dutch: land	Norwegian: land, område, distrikt
Polish: kraj	Persian: کشور	Pashto: وطن، ملک
Portuguese: país	Romanian: ţară, stat	Russian: страна
Slovak: krajina	Slovenian: dežela	Serbian: zemlja
Swedish: land	Thai: ประเทศ	Turkish: ülke
Taiwanese: 國家	Ukrainian: країна	Urdu: ملك
Vietnamese: đất nước	Chinese: 国家
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