Definitions from Wiktionary (country)
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (uncountable, countable) A somewhat precisely delimited 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.
▸ noun: (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land; a district, region.
▸ noun: (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
▸ noun: (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
▸ noun: (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
▸ noun: (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
▸ adjective: From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.
▸ adjective: Of or connected to country music.
▸ adjective: (India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
▸ noun: Ellipsis of country music. [(music) A style of popular music that originated in the folk music of the rural population of the southern and western United States and characterized by string-band instruments and simple melodies.]
▸ Also see country
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▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (uncountable, countable) A somewhat precisely delimited 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.
▸ noun: (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land; a district, region.
▸ noun: (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
▸ noun: (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
▸ noun: (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
▸ noun: (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
▸ adjective: From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.
▸ adjective: Of or connected to country music.
▸ adjective: (India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
▸ noun: Ellipsis of country music. [(music) A style of popular music that originated in the folk music of the rural population of the southern and western United States and characterized by string-band instruments and simple melodies.]
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