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单词 out-country
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out-countryadj.

Brit. /ˈaʊtˌkʌntri/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌkəntri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, country n.
Etymology: < out- prefix + country n.
1. Belonging or relating to another country; coming from another country.In quot. 1886, perhaps ‘out-of-county’.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > in a country > not in a country
out-country1886
1886 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 18 100 'Tis no good for an out-country man to marry an in-country she.
1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 151/2 He had a genius for out-country development and government that fell below Cecil Rhodes's mark only because of a few accidental differences.
1963 Times 6 Feb. 6/7 Cornwall..has agreed to give all technical assistance that is needed on payment by the Scillies of travelling and subsistence expenses, and to charge for the use of its educational and welfare institutions at the ‘in-country’ instead of the ‘out-country’ rate.
1979 Internat. Migration Rev. 13 599 One of the heaviest contributors to the flow of out-country migrants bound for the United States.
2. Associated with or suggestive of the country; rural. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective]
fieldena1425
rustic?1440
citylessc1450
champestrea1492
rural?a1500
rustical1542
agrestc1550
predial1592
champestrial1612
agrestic1617
agrestical1623
agrested1650
upland1654
countrified1756
agrestian1812
country1827
mofussil1828
agrestial1840
landward1844
bucolic1846
out-country1939
land-bound1972
1939 R. Sale in Detective Fiction Weekly 1 Apr. 47/2 I guess you don't know how out-country editors kind of idolize the way you do things..on the New York end.
1943 Time 22 Feb. 53/2 With his clear, healthy, out-country look..baggy, tweedy clothes..Will White had strolled into his office.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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out-country
out-country n.
Brit. /ˈaʊtˌkʌntri/
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U.S. /ˈaʊtˌkəntri/
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > remote or outlying area
nookc1480
out-country1639
outland1645
remoteness1694
backwoods1709
back county1775
remote1838
Mountains of the Moon1852
nowhere1871
the sticks1899
way back1901
downstate1905
back o' Bourke1918
far-back1926
woop woop1926
boohai?1946
bundu1946
Dogpatch1946
outback1954
toolies1961
upstate1965
Watford1973
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xviii. 28 They had pasturage to feed their cattel in, in out-countreys beyond Palestine.
1960 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 26 535 If the feudal game fell flat in the out-country, in the budding cities of Quebec and Montreal it could be, and was, played with more vraisemblance.
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adj.1886
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