countryside

English

Etymology

From country +‎ -side.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/

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• Hyphenation: coun‧try‧side

Noun

countryside (countable and uncountable, plural countrysides)

1. An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.
   • 1968, Lucian W. Pye, “The Political Process in Action: The Communes”, in The Spirit of Chinese Politics: A Psychocultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development‎^[1], M.I.T. Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 203:

     From November 28 to December 8, 1958, the CCP Central Committee held its sixth plenum in Wuhan, Hopei^{[sic – meaning Hupei]}, and at the end of the session it issued a revealing resolution that declared there had been some misconception about the system and that party committees throughout the countryside should make full use of the five months from December 1958 to April 1959 to tidy up the communes.

2. Such part of a larger area.

   We live in the Swedish countryside.

3. A rural landscape.

Usage notes

• Typically used with the definite article.

Derived terms

• countrysider

Translations

area outside of towns and cities, or such part of a larger area

• Afrikaans: platteland (af), landelike gebied
• Arabic: رِيف m (rīf)

  Egyptian Arabic: ريف m (rīf), أرياف f pl (ʔaryāf)

• Armenian: գյուղական տարածք (gyuġakan tarackʻ), գյուղ տեղ (gyuġ teġ)
• Belarusian: сяло́ n (sjaló), весь f (vjesʹ), вёска (be) f (vjóska), се́льская мясцо́васць f (sjélʹskaja mjascóvascʹ), се́льская мясцо́васьць f (sjélʹskaja mjascóvasʹcʹ)
• Bulgarian: се́лска ме́стност f (sélska méstnost), се́ло (bg) n (sélo)
• Catalan: camp (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 農村 / 农村 (zh) (nóngcūn), 鄉下 / 乡下 (zh) (xiāngxia)

• Cornish: powdir m
• Czech: venkov (cs) m
• Danish: land (da) n, landdistrikt n
• Dutch: platteland (nl) n, buitengebied (nl) n
• Esperanto: kamparo
• Estonian: küla (et), maa (et), maa-asula
• Finnish: maaseutu (fi), maa (fi)
• French: campagne (fr) f, arrière-pays (fr) m
• Georgian: სოფელი (ka) (sopeli)
• German: Land (de) n
• Greek: ύπαιθρος (el) f (ýpaithros), εξοχή (el) f (exochí)

  Ancient: ὕπαιθρος f (húpaithros), ὕπαιθρον n (húpaithron)

• Hindi: देहात (hi) m (dehāt)
• Hungarian: vidék (hu)
• Irish: tuath f, taobh tíre m, tír f
• Italian: campagna (it) f
• Japanese: 田舎 (ja) (いなか, inaka)
• Korean: 시골 (ko) (sigol), 농촌(農村) (ko) (nongchon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لادێ (ladê)

  Northern Kurdish: gundewar (ku)

• Latin: rūs (la) n
• Latvian: lauki m pl
• Lithuanian: kaimavietė f, užmiestis m
• Lü: ᦢᦱᧃᧉᦑᦳᧂᧈ (ḃaan²tung¹)
• Macedonian: се́лска ме́сност f (sélska mésnost), ка́тун m (kátun), прови́нција f (províncija), се́ло (mk) n (sélo)
• Mòcheno: vèlt n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landsbygd m or f, provins m

• Old English: upland n
• Ottoman Turkish: قیر (kır), كوی (köy)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دِهات (fa) (dehât)

• Polish: wieś (pl) f
• Portuguese: roça (pt) f, interior (pt) m
• Russian: се́льская ме́стность f (sélʹskaja méstnostʹ), дере́вня (ru) f (derévnja), село́ (ru) n (seló)
• Scottish Gaelic: dùthaich f
• Slovak: vidiek m
• Slovene: podeželje n
• Spanish: campo (es) m, campaña (es) f, campiña (es) f, provincia (es) f
• Swahili: mashamba (sw)
• Swedish: landsbygd (sv) c
• Tagalog: probinsiya
• Talysh: ди (di)
• Tamil: நாட்டுப்புறம் (ta) (nāṭṭuppuṟam), நாடு (ta) (nāṭu)
• Thai: ชนบท (th) (chon-ná-bòt)
• Turkish: kır (tr)
• Ukrainian: село́ (uk) n (seló), сільська́ місце́вість f (silʹsʹká miscévistʹ)
• Urdu: دیہات m (dehāt), دیہی عِلاقَہ m (dehī 'ilāqa)
• Vietnamese: miền quê, vùng quê, nông thôn (vi)
• Welsh: cefn gwlad (cy) m

a rural landscape

• Afrikaans: platteland (af), landelike gebied
• Bulgarian: се́лски пейза́ж m (sélski pejzáž)
• Catalan: camp (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 農村 / 农村 (zh) (nóngcūn), 田園 / 田园 (zh) (tiányuán)

• Dutch: platteland (nl) n
• Finnish: maalaismaisema (fi), maaseutumaisema
• French: campagne (fr) f
• Galician: campo (gl) m, agro m
• Greek: ύπαιθρος (el) f (ýpaithros), εξοχή (el) f (exochí)

  Ancient: ὕπαιθρος f (húpaithros), ὕπαιθρον n (húpaithron)

• Italian: campagna (it) f
• Korean: 시골 (ko) (sigol), 농촌(農村) (ko) (nongchon)
• Latin: rūs (la) n
• Macedonian: се́лски пејза́ж m (sélski pejzáž)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөдөө (mn) (xödöö)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: land (no) n, landet (no) n (usually definite)

• Polish: krajobraz wiejski m
• Portuguese: campo (pt) m, campanha (pt) f
• Romanian: sat (ro) n
• Russian: се́льский пейза́ж m (sélʹskij pejzáž), дере́вня (ru) f (derévnja), село́ (ru) n (seló)
• Scottish Gaelic: dùthaich f
• Spanish: campo (es) m, campiña (es) f
• Swedish: landsbygd (sv) c, land (sv) n, glesbygd (sv) c
• Tagalog: probinsiya
• Talysh: ди (di)
• Turkish: kır (tr)

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