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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
country
n 1: 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]
2: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land
of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn:
country, state, land]
3: 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]
4: 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]
5: 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]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. --Gen.
xxxxii. 9.
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I might have learned this by my last exile,
that change of countries cannot change my state.
--Stirling.
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Many a famous realm
And country, whereof here needs no account --Milton.
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2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
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As they walked, on their way into the country.
--Mark xvi. 12
(Rev. Ver. ).
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God made the covatry, and man made the town.
--Cowper.
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Only very great men were in the habit of dividing
the year between town and country. --Macaulay.
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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.
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All the country in a general voice
Cried hate upon him. --Shak.
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4. (Law)
(a) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
(b) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is
drawn.
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5. (Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs.
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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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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2. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not
urbane; as, country manners.
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3. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
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She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel
tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language. --2
Macc. vii. 27.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
COUNTRY. By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
2. Every man's country is in general the state in which he happens to
have been born, though there are some exceptions. See Domicil; Inhabitant.
But a man has the natural right to expatriate himself, i. e. to abandon his
country, or his right of citizenship acquired by means of naturalization in
any country in which he may have taken up his residence. See Allegiance;
Citizen; Expatriation. in another sense, country is the same as pais. (q.v.)
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Thesaurus Results for country:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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