country

Meanings

Noun

• An area of land; a district, region.
• 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.
• 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.
• A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
• The rock through which a vein runs.

Adjective

• From or in the countryside or connected with it.
• Of or connected to country music.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• cleft country
• developing country
• high country
• King Country
• member country
• old country
• West Country

Origin

• From Middle English contre, contree, contreie, from Old French contree, from Vulgar Latin (terra) contrāta, derived from Latin contra ("against, opposite"). Cognate with Scots kintra.