Definitions for countries

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countries coun·try

Spelling: [kuhn-tree]

IPA: /ˈkʌn tri/

Countries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 817 anagrams from letters in countries (ceinorstu).

Definitions for countries

noun

1. a state or nation:
2. the territory of a nation.
3. the people of a district, state, or nation:
4. the land of one's birth or citizenship.
5. rural districts, including farmland, parkland, and other sparsely populated areas, as opposed to cities or towns:
6. any considerable territory demarcated by topographical conditions, by a distinctive population, etc.:
7. a tract of land considered apart from any geographical or political limits; region; district.
8. the public.
9. Law. the public at large, as represented by a jury.
10. country music.

Idioms

1. go to the country, British. to dissolve a Parliament that has cast a majority vote disagreeing with the prime minister and cabinet and to call for the election of a new House of Commons. Also, appeal to the country.
2. put oneself upon the / one's country, Law. to present one's cause formally before a jury.

adjective

1. of, from, or characteristic of the country; rural:
2. of, relating to, or associated with country music:
3. rude; unpolished; rustic:
4. of, from, or pertaining to a particular country.
5. Obsolete. of one's own country.

Origin of countries

1200-50; Middle English cuntree Anglo-French, Old French Vulgar Latin *(regiō) contrāta terrain opposite the viewer, equivalent to Latin contr(ā) counter³

Examples for countries

The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.

In some countries it actually took the place of the old tribal dialect.

We have never any wish to interfere in the political conditions of any other countries.

We do see that a few European countries have them on the books: Germany, Poland, Italy, Ireland, a couple more.

According to Pew, 14 of the 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa have blasphemy laws.

There are reasons that European countries tend to avoid fluoride.

It has been so in other countries; I trust it may be so in this country.

In Scandinavian countries this discrimination has been dramatically reduced.

But if it is His own country, it don't make Him any connysoor of countries with me.

Of all countries in the world, there is none I so much wish to visit as Persia.