Definitions for country

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country coun·try

Spelling: [kuhn-tree]

IPA: /ˈkʌn tri/

Country is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in country (cnortuy).

Definitions for country

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 country

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 country

"But you went to Athens, and took no care for your country," rejoined the prince.

He might in this country; he'd never do it at home, you know.

Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.

In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.

The country was rapidly becoming, they agreed, no place for a gentleman to live.

The laws of the country made it impossible to accompany her beloved husband.

It marked a groundbreaking moment in how the country viewed Jews, especially Jewish women.

Charles “Father” Coughlin, a raving anti-Semite, was one of the most popular radio hosts in the country.

“This is a federal mandate that is causing some real problems for schools across the country,” Kline told a CBS affiliate in July.

The reason I write promptly is that you may not go out of the country just now.