country

• Noun

  1. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
  2. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
  3. A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
  4. An area of land; a district, region.
  5. Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
  6. Ellipsis of country music.
  7. The rock through which a vein runs.

• Adj