country

Meaning

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

1. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
2. Of or connected to country music.
3. Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.

Hyphenated as

coun‧try

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʌntɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English contre, contree, contreie, from Old French contree, from Vulgar Latin (terra) contrāta (“(land) lying opposite; (land) spread before”), derived from Latin contra (“against, opposite”). Unrelated to county. Cognate with Scots kintra.

Sentences

What did he ever do for his country ?

They settled in the country of Goshen .