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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”). Cognate with Scots kintra.
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: kŭn'tri
- (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkʌntɹi/, [ˈkʰʌnt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷi], /ˈkʌntɹɪ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɐntɹi/
- (common in ESL) IPA(key): /ˈkaʊntɹi/
- Rhymes: (UK, US, Canada) -ʌntɹi
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: coun‧try
Noun[edit]
country (plural countries)
- (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region. [from 13th c.]
- 2010 March 7, David Vann, The Observer:
- We walk along flat, open country, red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees […].
- 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. [from 13th c.]
- 2007 February 17, Chris Moss, The Guardian:
- This is condor country – the only region this far east where you can see the magnificent vulture – and a small national park straddling the passes, El Condorito, is a good stopover for walkers and birders.
- 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. [from 14th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
- By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 3:
- It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.
- 2010, The Economist, 3 Feb 2011:
- These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
- (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- I was borne and brought up in the Countrie, and amidst husbandry […].
- 2000 March 4, Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian:
- I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in the country is the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.
- Ellipsis of country music. [from 20th c.]
- a country song
- a country singer
- a country festival
- (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
Usage notes[edit]
The geographical sense of "country" usually refers to a sovereign state, that is, a nation with no administrative dependence on another one, which is the definition adopted in most world maps. In a broader sense, however, "country" may also refer to nations with some degree of autonomy and cultural identity but still under the sovereignty of another state. Examples of the latter include Scotland, Tibet, Abkhazia, and Greenland.
Hyponyms[edit]
See also Thesaurus:country.
Hyponyms of country (noun)
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from country (noun)
- accession country
- across country
- alt-country
- alternative country
- another country heard from
- a prophet has no honor in his own country
- a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
- back country
- bro-country
- bro country
- Constable country
- constituent country
- countrify
- country & western
- country-and-western
- country-blues
- country-damaged
- country-dance
- country-fried
- country-fried steak
- country-rock
- country-side
- country-western
- country-western music
- country and western
- country beam
- country blues
- country bookie
- country box
- country bumpkin
- country captain
- country club
- country code
- country cousin
- country cousin
- country dance
- country dancing
- country gentleman
- country gravy
- country ham
- country house
- country lane
- country merchant
- country mile
- country music
- country of origin
- country of provenance
- country park
- country pop
- country rap
- country rock
- country sausage
- country seat
- country ship
- countryside
- country side
- country store
- country team
- countrywide
- country wife
- country wine
- cross-country
- cross-country ski
- cross-country skier
- cross-country skiing
- cross country
- cross country skiing
- developed country
- Elvis country
- flyover country
- foreign country
- free country
- fresh country eggs
- go country
- God's country
- God's own country
- go to the country
- hill country blues
- home country
- host country
- in-country
- in country
- it's a free country
- mother country
- neotraditional country
- Nordic country
- north country
- old-time country
- outlaw country
- outside country
- pure country
- socialism in one country
- step-country
- third country
- tiger country
- Trump country
- up the country people
- X-country
Descendants[edit]
- Nigerian Pidgin: kontri
- Sranan Tongo: kondre
- Tok Pisin: kantri
- ⇒ Chinese: 港腳／港脚 (gǎngjiǎo)
- → Finnish: country, kantri
- → French: country
- → Italian: country
- → Japanese: カントリー (kantorī)
- → Polish: country
- → Portuguese: country
- → Romanian: country
- → Russian: ка́нтри (kántri)
- → Spanish: country
- → Swedish: country
Translations[edit]
region of land
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nation state
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the country, rural area, as opposed to the town or city
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country music
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See also[edit]
Adjective[edit]
country (not comparable)
- From or in the countryside or connected with it.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
- Of or connected to country music.
- (India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
- 1872, Silk in India, page 16:
- We have seen that the Company manufactured silk stuffs at three of its Residencies, but from country-wound silk.
- 1884, Journal of the United Service Institution of India, page 185:
- A reference to the Annual Administration Reports of the Department of Horse-breeding Operations […] will allow of the opinion being arrived at, that the breed of country horses under the present regime is steadily improving.
- 1937, Brigadier-General H. A. Young, The East India Company’s Arsenals & Manufactories:
- Country harness costs nearly as much, lasts half the time, and is in every respect inferior. It is understood that the only reason is that the Court desires to improve and encourage Indian manufactures.
Translations[edit]
of, from or pertaining to the countryside (adjective)
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References[edit]
- country at OneLook Dictionary Search
- country in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "country" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 81.
- “country”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Finnish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English country.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
country
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of country (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | country | — | ||
| genitive | countryn | — | ||
| partitive | countrya | — | ||
| illative | countryyn | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | country | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | country | — | |
| gen. | countryn | |||
| genitive | countryn | — | ||
| partitive | countrya | — | ||
| inessive | countryssa | — | ||
| elative | countrysta | — | ||
| illative | countryyn | — | ||
| adessive | countrylla | — | ||
| ablative | countrylta | — | ||
| allative | countrylle | — | ||
| essive | countryna | — | ||
| translative | countryksi | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| abessive | countrytta | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English. Doublet of contrée.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
country m (uncountable)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English country.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
country m (invariable)
References[edit]
- ^ country in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English country music.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
country n (indeclinable)
Derived terms[edit]
adjectives
Further reading[edit]
- country in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- country in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English country.
The pronunciation reflects the incorrect belief that the <oun> represents /aʊn/ in the English etymon.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
country m (uncountable)
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English country.
Adjective[edit]
country m or n (feminine singular countryă, masculine plural countryi, feminine and neuter plural countrye)
- country (music)
Declension[edit]
Declension of country
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | country | countryă | countryi | countrye | ||
| definite | countryul | countrya | countryii | countryele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | country | countrye | countryi | countrye | ||
| definite | countryului | countryei | countryilor | countryelor | |||
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English country. Doublet of contrada.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
country m (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- “country”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English.
Noun[edit]
country c (uncountable)
Declension[edit]
| Declension of country | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | country | countryn | — | — |
| Genitive | countrys | countryns | — | — |
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