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Definition of old country in English: old countrynoun the old countryThe native country of a person who has gone to live abroad. Example sentencesExamples - He died while his children were in their teens and their mother, his wife, abandoned the family, returning to the old country.
- Inside you'll find yourself taken back to the old country.
- There was an amazingly diverse audience at the show, proving that Celtic music is not just for old folk from the old country - long live the fiddle!
- When you leave a family behind in the east or the old country and have no one to talk to for months on end but your tight-lipped husband and the wind, you may go mad.
- This symbolises the plight of our people in the old country.
- Yet, for all its faded paintwork, it is nonetheless the sort of place that reeks of the old country, of back streets in the Italy of my youthful summers.
- But no one's there for the décor - instead, they're lined up for soul food straight from the old country.
- It was great to be back on the ground in the old country.
- I am over here on a retirement visa, living off a small pension I get from the old country.
- It is perfectly worth his while to pay, besides these high wages, the cost of the passage of free labour from the old country to the colony.
- Once my feet hit the curb, I realized that Montreal is a big city, but it's founded on the ideals of the old country..
- You can't saddle a man who chose to be American with the baggage he left behind in the old country.
- You don't want to forget all the things that happened in the old country.
- The gentleman was an old friend of Maurice's father, from the old country.
- Every day was worse than the last and better than the next, until one night Salim was visited in his dreams by a genie from the old country.
- Of Armenian descent, he is a watchmaker, pursuing a craft for which the people of the old country are well known.
- And did he maintain family ties with the family members in the old country?
- My parents came from the old country, and they came to America to get away from that stuff.
- Back in the old country we have a saying of great sagacity for which, sadly, there is no sufficient translation in English.
- When Jimmy died in 1989, our family lost its final link with the old country, as grandpa used to call it.
Definition of old country in US English: old countrynounōld ˈkəntrēoʊld ˈkəntri the old countryThe native country of a person who has gone to live abroad. Example sentencesExamples - Once my feet hit the curb, I realized that Montreal is a big city, but it's founded on the ideals of the old country..
- You don't want to forget all the things that happened in the old country.
- I am over here on a retirement visa, living off a small pension I get from the old country.
- Every day was worse than the last and better than the next, until one night Salim was visited in his dreams by a genie from the old country.
- It is perfectly worth his while to pay, besides these high wages, the cost of the passage of free labour from the old country to the colony.
- The gentleman was an old friend of Maurice's father, from the old country.
- Back in the old country we have a saying of great sagacity for which, sadly, there is no sufficient translation in English.
- It was great to be back on the ground in the old country.
- When Jimmy died in 1989, our family lost its final link with the old country, as grandpa used to call it.
- You can't saddle a man who chose to be American with the baggage he left behind in the old country.
- Of Armenian descent, he is a watchmaker, pursuing a craft for which the people of the old country are well known.
- My parents came from the old country, and they came to America to get away from that stuff.
- But no one's there for the décor - instead, they're lined up for soul food straight from the old country.
- And did he maintain family ties with the family members in the old country?
- He died while his children were in their teens and their mother, his wife, abandoned the family, returning to the old country.
- This symbolises the plight of our people in the old country.
- When you leave a family behind in the east or the old country and have no one to talk to for months on end but your tight-lipped husband and the wind, you may go mad.
- Inside you'll find yourself taken back to the old country.
- Yet, for all its faded paintwork, it is nonetheless the sort of place that reeks of the old country, of back streets in the Italy of my youthful summers.
- There was an amazingly diverse audience at the show, proving that Celtic music is not just for old folk from the old country - long live the fiddle!
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