Definition of country in English:

country

nounPlural countries ˈkʌntriˈkəntri

1A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.
the country's increasingly precarious economic position
Spain, Italy, and other European countries
Example sentencesExamples
- It is common for towns and cities in different countries to twin with each other.
- Does a common hatred of a third country reduce the chance of war between two countries?
- Many mangrove forest areas along the country's coast have been converted into fish farms.
- Most of the evacuees have been taken on buses to the various states outside the country.
- It seems like everyone you talk to is keeping their eyes open for a job opportunity outside of the country.
- He also wants European states to slash aid to the poor countries that refugees flee from.
- Taking a cross-section of the country would reveal an urban versus rural spilt.
- It seems that there are a few differences in public domain laws in different countries.
- With the reunification of Germany, Berlin became once again the capital of the country.
- The technology has been so successful that they say it is likely to be copied in other urban areas across the country.
- The Government should take action and start thinking about how the country looks on the outside.
- This will reduce the range of cheap drugs available to African and other countries.
- In more and more countries around the world output is now stalling, if not falling.
- The four-bedroomed property is in a suburb of the country's capital Colombo.
- It is more than four times what all the European Union countries together spend on arms.
- While he is right about the sale and price of milk, all of this milk is not coming from outside the country.
- It was shocking to me how many people came from outside the country to give him support.
- In some ways it seems like a better option for some countries to turn to democracy.
- It was possible for an Australian writer to get that kind of attention outside of the country.
- They are fearful that they will follow in the local district courts around the country.
- I love watching the news in other countries just to see how little coverage we get.
- We had not yet been able to find the way to overcome this obstacle to the revolution in our countries.
- The rest of the country might perceive areas like the Lake District to be prosperous.
Synonyms
state, nation, sovereign state, kingdom, realm, territory, province, principality, palatinate, duchy, empire, commonwealth
homeland, native land, native soil, fatherland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, birthplace
the land of one's birth, the land of one's fathers, the old country, one's roots, one's home
1. 1.1the country The people of a nation.
  the whole country took to the streets
  Example sentencesExamples
  The morale of the army only reflected that of the country as a whole.
  Eight of our GCSE candidates were awarded one of the top 5 marks in the whole of the country.
  On the Monday the country enjoyed a public holiday to celebrate the Queen's Birthday.
  Education is so important, important for the country as a whole, not just the individual.
  Incentives and discipline work together to secure a desirable outcome for the country as a whole.
  Over the past 12 months, the country as a whole has seen a series of appalling incidents involving guns.
  Let's leave motorists alone and concentrate on the many other problems within the borough and the country as a whole.
  In theory the whole of the country could be represented at a meeting of the Estates.
  Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way.
  I cannot avoid the conclusion that the country's whole political class has, thus far, failed it.
  The rest of the country has had its collective voice ignored for too long - we must be heard!
  Many argue this would keep the country moving while suitable public transport alternatives are worked out.
  In a recent national poll she was voted as one of the country's most popular women - second only to the Queen.
  He feels the story is relevant in the context of communal tensions the country is facing now.
  How does England's stunning rugby World Cup victory affect the country as a whole?
  It seemed the whole of the country was there in one form or another.
  But he or she needs to be seen to have the support of the country as a whole, as well as the goods to do the job.
  Within the country as a whole though, the antipathy towards the party baffles me.
  Football, and I would argue the country as a whole, is a little less colourful for the loss of one of it's greatest men.
  Actually, The paoer's attitude to celebrities reflects the country as a whole.
  Synonyms
  people, public, general public, population, populace, community, citizenry, nation, body politic, collective
  inhabitants, residents, citizens, electors, voters, taxpayers, ratepayers, grass roots
  British informal Joe Public
  rare indigenes
2often the countryDistricts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital.
the airfield is right out in the country
as modifier a country lane
Example sentencesExamples
- You hear everywhere that they are calling out for more nurses and definitely for the country area.
- Wireless technology is the cheapest and easiest means of connecting the country to the outside world.
- The affairs of the town, the country and the outside world meant little to them.
- The French, it is claimed, have now rediscovered family life, love and liberty, and hairdressers called Madame Niki can close on a Friday and go to the country.
- A campaign group has been launched in an attempt to stop people dying on the country lanes of the region.
- It is vitally important that the people here are united in this thrust to depopulate the country area.
- Then he said they had died in a gun battle with soldiers on a country road outside the capital.
- He had gone to the country just before Christmas and was believed to be staying for a month.
- Shoppers, workers and students we spoke to complained of the country roads outside the town.
- The objective evidence that the violence from the GIA are mainly confined to the country areas.
- The Empress went to the country for the day with her son and left me in charge.
- We race through Urus-Martan, a large central Chechen settlement, and rocky country lanes.
- So I went to the country for the weekend - that's the countryside, those large stretches of verdant open land between the towns and cities.
- It is about time the country areas got their fair share of the road grants.
- We went to the city, but we also went to the country… it's so pretty out there.
- The three of us speed off out of Nottingham, through the centre of Derby, and out onto the country lanes beyond.
Synonyms
countryside, green belt, great outdoors
provinces, backwoods, wilds, wilderness, hinterland
a rural area, a rural district
farmland, agricultural land
Australian outback, bush, back country, backblocks, booay
South African backveld, platteland
informal sticks, back of beyond, middle of nowhere
North American informal boondocks, boonies, tall timbers
Australian informal Woop Woop, beyond the black stump
3mass noun An area or region with regard to its physical features.
a tract of wild country
Example sentencesExamples
- They spend the summer in wild country, haunting the great flows of Sutherland.
- Miles and miles of razor wire and guards and forests, then really broken land, very hard country.
- But his true appeal lies in his own personal evocation of wild country.
- She had gone to bathe before she prepared for a long and wearying journey across wild country.
- It is a wild and woolly country which drew me in and one that continues to find new ways to embrace me.
- For a dry, desert country the greenery in this area makes for a striking contrast.
- Perhaps a verdant temperate country with beautiful wild flowers and cute native animals?
- Moldova is on a fertile plain with small areas of hill country in the center and north.
- It was a wild, rugged country that used horses and carts for transport and grew wheat in their fields.
- Everyone else involved is to spend a winter in the high country with the wild brumbies.
- The book focuses on Gippsland's high country and the long history of the area.
- This opens up a fine panorama of the surrounding hill country, with peak upon peak now in sight.
Synonyms
terrain, land, territory, parts
landscape, scenery, setting, surroundings, environment
1. 3.1 A region associated with a particular person, work, or television programme.
  an old mansion in Stevenson's ‘Kidnapped’ country
  Example sentencesExamples
  Once you arrive at D.H. Lawrence Country you can begin to enjoy the Lawrence countryside which he referred to as ‘The Country of my Heart’.
  A farming family in Herriot country is offering death with dignity for all creatures great and small.
  This area is also famous as Macbeth Country, and the The Birnam Wood, made famous by the witches' prophesy in Shakespeare's MacBeth, is on the south bank of the River Tay.
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short for country music

Phrases

across country

Not keeping to roads.
their route was across country, through fields of corn
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘As Brits, we would have benefited from a bigger challenge across country,’ he says.
- And really, he wants to date her, so he agrees to take her kids in a road trip across country.
- More than a dozen highly contagious and potentially lethal diseases can be spread by horses, hounds, and hunt followers as they race across country.
- Most people came down the motorway or across country, they found their way and were impressed with the facilities.
- So it made the drive easier if not slightly disturbing since he was used to women talking up a storm on a road trip across country.
- We looped off the road and went again across country.
- She was forced to struggle in severe weather and in darkness across country to seek assistance in a highly distressed state and suffering from hypothermia.
- Whether you're packing to go for a walk to the park or your planning a trip across country, when your travelling with toddlers packing poses a problem.
- Two-thirds of it will be on roads and the rest across country.
- Meanwhile, your baby sister is eloping with her French teacher and your boyfriend is hitchhiking across country to surf on the opposite coast.

go (or appeal) to the country

Test public opinion by dissolving Parliament and holding a general election.
the prime minister had been due to go to the country by November
Example sentencesExamples
- Our party believes we are having a positive role in Government, working step by step to implement policies that we went to the country on.
- He should begin negotiations now with the European Central Bank, and go to the country with a clear policy, a firm commitment and a united government.
- The delayed date still leaves him open to criticism from farmers, country dwellers and the Opposition for going to the country while the disease continues its strong grip on the nation.
- In today's Independent on Sunday newspaper a poll of 110 Labour backbenchers showed only 45% openly in favour of going to the country on May 3.
- What political party has ever gone to the country with such a feeble platform?
- Supposing that I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and that we must be armed, does anyone think that our pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry?
- Not since the Labour's longest suicide note in 1983 has a political party gone to the country with such an incredible economic policy.
- If only he had been able to go to the country when he wanted, instead of having to wait nearly 12 agonising months.
- By a cruel irony, the decisive moment will probably have come on the afternoon of May 3 - the very day when he originally planned to go to the country.
- Haughey went to the country after the opposition rejected government compensation proposals for haemophiliacs, which they said were too low.

one's line of country

A subject in which one is skilled or knowledgeable.
anagrams are not in my line of country
Example sentencesExamples
- Certainly it is not in the line of country that your Honour was talking about.
- ‘Funny that, I had someone who shares your line of country in during the week,’ said Bob.
- At the same time we're being encouraged to publish stuff in hard copy in journals, refereed journals and refereed books, which is my line of country.
Synonyms
responsibility, duty, concern, province, aim, activity, assignment, obligation, charge

Origin

Middle English: from Old French cuntree, from medieval Latin contrata (terra) '(land) lying opposite', from Latin contra 'against, opposite'.

Country comes from medieval Latin contrata terra, meaning ‘the land lying opposite, the landscape spread out in front of you’. This is based on Latin contra ‘against or opposite’ and terra ‘land’, the source of words at terrace. A country fit for heroes to live in is a phrase associated with the British prime minister David Lloyd George (1863–1945). In a speech in 1918, he said ‘What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.’ A person from a rural background who is unfamiliar with, and alarmed by, urban life can be called a country mouse. The allusion is to one of Aesop's fables, which contrasts the country mouse with the streetwise city-dwelling town mouse. In the fable each mouse visits the other, but is in the end convinced of the superiority of its own home.

Rhymes

upcountry

Definition of country in US English:

country

nounˈkəntrēˈkəntri

1A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.
the country's increasingly precarious economic position
Example sentencesExamples
- It was possible for an Australian writer to get that kind of attention outside of the country.
- It seems like everyone you talk to is keeping their eyes open for a job opportunity outside of the country.
- The Government should take action and start thinking about how the country looks on the outside.
- In some ways it seems like a better option for some countries to turn to democracy.
- It is more than four times what all the European Union countries together spend on arms.
- They are fearful that they will follow in the local district courts around the country.
- We had not yet been able to find the way to overcome this obstacle to the revolution in our countries.
- It is common for towns and cities in different countries to twin with each other.
- It was shocking to me how many people came from outside the country to give him support.
- Most of the evacuees have been taken on buses to the various states outside the country.
- This will reduce the range of cheap drugs available to African and other countries.
- Taking a cross-section of the country would reveal an urban versus rural spilt.
- The four-bedroomed property is in a suburb of the country's capital Colombo.
- In more and more countries around the world output is now stalling, if not falling.
- It seems that there are a few differences in public domain laws in different countries.
- While he is right about the sale and price of milk, all of this milk is not coming from outside the country.
- The technology has been so successful that they say it is likely to be copied in other urban areas across the country.
- The rest of the country might perceive areas like the Lake District to be prosperous.
- Many mangrove forest areas along the country's coast have been converted into fish farms.
- I love watching the news in other countries just to see how little coverage we get.
- Does a common hatred of a third country reduce the chance of war between two countries?
- He also wants European states to slash aid to the poor countries that refugees flee from.
- With the reunification of Germany, Berlin became once again the capital of the country.
Synonyms
state, nation, sovereign state, kingdom, realm, territory, province, principality, palatinate, duchy, empire, commonwealth
homeland, native land, native soil, fatherland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, birthplace
1. 1.1the country The people of a nation.
  the whole country took to the streets
  Example sentencesExamples
  Actually, The paoer's attitude to celebrities reflects the country as a whole.
  The rest of the country has had its collective voice ignored for too long - we must be heard!
  Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way.
  Football, and I would argue the country as a whole, is a little less colourful for the loss of one of it's greatest men.
  How does England's stunning rugby World Cup victory affect the country as a whole?
  Many argue this would keep the country moving while suitable public transport alternatives are worked out.
  I cannot avoid the conclusion that the country's whole political class has, thus far, failed it.
  It seemed the whole of the country was there in one form or another.
  Over the past 12 months, the country as a whole has seen a series of appalling incidents involving guns.
  Education is so important, important for the country as a whole, not just the individual.
  He feels the story is relevant in the context of communal tensions the country is facing now.
  But he or she needs to be seen to have the support of the country as a whole, as well as the goods to do the job.
  Let's leave motorists alone and concentrate on the many other problems within the borough and the country as a whole.
  In theory the whole of the country could be represented at a meeting of the Estates.
  Within the country as a whole though, the antipathy towards the party baffles me.
  Eight of our GCSE candidates were awarded one of the top 5 marks in the whole of the country.
  The morale of the army only reflected that of the country as a whole.
  Incentives and discipline work together to secure a desirable outcome for the country as a whole.
  On the Monday the country enjoyed a public holiday to celebrate the Queen's Birthday.
  In a recent national poll she was voted as one of the country's most popular women - second only to the Queen.
  Synonyms
  people, public, general public, population, populace, community, citizenry, nation, body politic, collective
2often the countryDistricts and small settlements outside large towns, cities, or the capital.
the airfield is right out in the country
as modifier a country lane
Example sentencesExamples
- A campaign group has been launched in an attempt to stop people dying on the country lanes of the region.
- It is about time the country areas got their fair share of the road grants.
- It is vitally important that the people here are united in this thrust to depopulate the country area.
- The Empress went to the country for the day with her son and left me in charge.
- The French, it is claimed, have now rediscovered family life, love and liberty, and hairdressers called Madame Niki can close on a Friday and go to the country.
- He had gone to the country just before Christmas and was believed to be staying for a month.
- We went to the city, but we also went to the country… it's so pretty out there.
- The affairs of the town, the country and the outside world meant little to them.
- Then he said they had died in a gun battle with soldiers on a country road outside the capital.
- The objective evidence that the violence from the GIA are mainly confined to the country areas.
- So I went to the country for the weekend - that's the countryside, those large stretches of verdant open land between the towns and cities.
- You hear everywhere that they are calling out for more nurses and definitely for the country area.
- The three of us speed off out of Nottingham, through the centre of Derby, and out onto the country lanes beyond.
- We race through Urus-Martan, a large central Chechen settlement, and rocky country lanes.
- Shoppers, workers and students we spoke to complained of the country roads outside the town.
- Wireless technology is the cheapest and easiest means of connecting the country to the outside world.
Synonyms
countryside, green belt, great outdoors
3An area or region with regard to its physical features.
a tract of wild country
Example sentencesExamples
- Everyone else involved is to spend a winter in the high country with the wild brumbies.
- She had gone to bathe before she prepared for a long and wearying journey across wild country.
- Perhaps a verdant temperate country with beautiful wild flowers and cute native animals?
- But his true appeal lies in his own personal evocation of wild country.
- Miles and miles of razor wire and guards and forests, then really broken land, very hard country.
- This opens up a fine panorama of the surrounding hill country, with peak upon peak now in sight.
- For a dry, desert country the greenery in this area makes for a striking contrast.
- They spend the summer in wild country, haunting the great flows of Sutherland.
- Moldova is on a fertile plain with small areas of hill country in the center and north.
- It was a wild, rugged country that used horses and carts for transport and grew wheat in their fields.
- The book focuses on Gippsland's high country and the long history of the area.
- It is a wild and woolly country which drew me in and one that continues to find new ways to embrace me.
Synonyms
terrain, land, territory, parts
1. 3.1 A region associated with a particular person, especially a writer, or with a particular work.
  Steinbeck country includes the Monterey Peninsula
  Example sentencesExamples
  Once you arrive at D.H. Lawrence Country you can begin to enjoy the Lawrence countryside which he referred to as ‘The Country of my Heart’.
  A farming family in Herriot country is offering death with dignity for all creatures great and small.
  This area is also famous as Macbeth Country, and the The Birnam Wood, made famous by the witches' prophesy in Shakespeare's MacBeth, is on the south bank of the River Tay.
4
short for country music

Phrases

across country

Not keeping to roads.
their route was across country, through fields of corn
Example sentencesExamples
- We looped off the road and went again across country.
- And really, he wants to date her, so he agrees to take her kids in a road trip across country.
- More than a dozen highly contagious and potentially lethal diseases can be spread by horses, hounds, and hunt followers as they race across country.
- ‘As Brits, we would have benefited from a bigger challenge across country,’ he says.
- Two-thirds of it will be on roads and the rest across country.
- She was forced to struggle in severe weather and in darkness across country to seek assistance in a highly distressed state and suffering from hypothermia.
- Whether you're packing to go for a walk to the park or your planning a trip across country, when your travelling with toddlers packing poses a problem.
- Most people came down the motorway or across country, they found their way and were impressed with the facilities.
- Meanwhile, your baby sister is eloping with her French teacher and your boyfriend is hitchhiking across country to surf on the opposite coast.
- So it made the drive easier if not slightly disturbing since he was used to women talking up a storm on a road trip across country.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French cuntree, from medieval Latin contrata (terra) ‘(land) lying opposite’, from Latin contra ‘against, opposite’.

单词	country
释义	Definition of country in English: country nounPlural countries ˈkʌntriˈkəntri 1A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory. the country's increasingly precarious economic position Spain, Italy, and other European countries Example sentencesExamples It is common for towns and cities in different countries to twin with each other. Does a common hatred of a third country reduce the chance of war between two countries? Many mangrove forest areas along the country's coast have been converted into fish farms. Most of the evacuees have been taken on buses to the various states outside the country. It seems like everyone you talk to is keeping their eyes open for a job opportunity outside of the country. He also wants European states to slash aid to the poor countries that refugees flee from. Taking a cross-section of the country would reveal an urban versus rural spilt. It seems that there are a few differences in public domain laws in different countries. With the reunification of Germany, Berlin became once again the capital of the country. The technology has been so successful that they say it is likely to be copied in other urban areas across the country. The Government should take action and start thinking about how the country looks on the outside. This will reduce the range of cheap drugs available to African and other countries. In more and more countries around the world output is now stalling, if not falling. The four-bedroomed property is in a suburb of the country's capital Colombo. It is more than four times what all the European Union countries together spend on arms. While he is right about the sale and price of milk, all of this milk is not coming from outside the country. It was shocking to me how many people came from outside the country to give him support. In some ways it seems like a better option for some countries to turn to democracy. It was possible for an Australian writer to get that kind of attention outside of the country. They are fearful that they will follow in the local district courts around the country. I love watching the news in other countries just to see how little coverage we get. We had not yet been able to find the way to overcome this obstacle to the revolution in our countries. The rest of the country might perceive areas like the Lake District to be prosperous. Synonyms state, nation, sovereign state, kingdom, realm, territory, province, principality, palatinate, duchy, empire, commonwealth homeland, native land, native soil, fatherland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, birthplace the land of one's birth, the land of one's fathers, the old country, one's roots, one's home 1.1the country The people of a nation. the whole country took to the streets Example sentencesExamples The morale of the army only reflected that of the country as a whole. Eight of our GCSE candidates were awarded one of the top 5 marks in the whole of the country. On the Monday the country enjoyed a public holiday to celebrate the Queen's Birthday. Education is so important, important for the country as a whole, not just the individual. Incentives and discipline work together to secure a desirable outcome for the country as a whole. Over the past 12 months, the country as a whole has seen a series of appalling incidents involving guns. Let's leave motorists alone and concentrate on the many other problems within the borough and the country as a whole. In theory the whole of the country could be represented at a meeting of the Estates. Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way. I cannot avoid the conclusion that the country's whole political class has, thus far, failed it. The rest of the country has had its collective voice ignored for too long - we must be heard! Many argue this would keep the country moving while suitable public transport alternatives are worked out. In a recent national poll she was voted as one of the country's most popular women - second only to the Queen. He feels the story is relevant in the context of communal tensions the country is facing now. How does England's stunning rugby World Cup victory affect the country as a whole? It seemed the whole of the country was there in one form or another. But he or she needs to be seen to have the support of the country as a whole, as well as the goods to do the job. Within the country as a whole though, the antipathy towards the party baffles me. Football, and I would argue the country as a whole, is a little less colourful for the loss of one of it's greatest men. Actually, The paoer's attitude to celebrities reflects the country as a whole. Synonyms people, public, general public, population, populace, community, citizenry, nation, body politic, collective inhabitants, residents, citizens, electors, voters, taxpayers, ratepayers, grass roots British informal Joe Public rare indigenes 2often the countryDistricts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital. the airfield is right out in the country as modifier a country lane Example sentencesExamples You hear everywhere that they are calling out for more nurses and definitely for the country area. Wireless technology is the cheapest and easiest means of connecting the country to the outside world. The affairs of the town, the country and the outside world meant little to them. The French, it is claimed, have now rediscovered family life, love and liberty, and hairdressers called Madame Niki can close on a Friday and go to the country. A campaign group has been launched in an attempt to stop people dying on the country lanes of the region. It is vitally important that the people here are united in this thrust to depopulate the country area. Then he said they had died in a gun battle with soldiers on a country road outside the capital. He had gone to the country just before Christmas and was believed to be staying for a month. Shoppers, workers and students we spoke to complained of the country roads outside the town. The objective evidence that the violence from the GIA are mainly confined to the country areas. The Empress went to the country for the day with her son and left me in charge. We race through Urus-Martan, a large central Chechen settlement, and rocky country lanes. So I went to the country for the weekend - that's the countryside, those large stretches of verdant open land between the towns and cities. It is about time the country areas got their fair share of the road grants. We went to the city, but we also went to the country… it's so pretty out there. The three of us speed off out of Nottingham, through the centre of Derby, and out onto the country lanes beyond. Synonyms countryside, green belt, great outdoors provinces, backwoods, wilds, wilderness, hinterland a rural area, a rural district farmland, agricultural land Australian outback, bush, back country, backblocks, booay South African backveld, platteland informal sticks, back of beyond, middle of nowhere North American informal boondocks, boonies, tall timbers Australian informal Woop Woop, beyond the black stump 3mass noun An area or region with regard to its physical features. a tract of wild country Example sentencesExamples They spend the summer in wild country, haunting the great flows of Sutherland. Miles and miles of razor wire and guards and forests, then really broken land, very hard country. But his true appeal lies in his own personal evocation of wild country. She had gone to bathe before she prepared for a long and wearying journey across wild country. It is a wild and woolly country which drew me in and one that continues to find new ways to embrace me. For a dry, desert country the greenery in this area makes for a striking contrast. Perhaps a verdant temperate country with beautiful wild flowers and cute native animals? Moldova is on a fertile plain with small areas of hill country in the center and north. It was a wild, rugged country that used horses and carts for transport and grew wheat in their fields. Everyone else involved is to spend a winter in the high country with the wild brumbies. The book focuses on Gippsland's high country and the long history of the area. This opens up a fine panorama of the surrounding hill country, with peak upon peak now in sight. Synonyms terrain, land, territory, parts landscape, scenery, setting, surroundings, environment 3.1 A region associated with a particular person, work, or television programme. an old mansion in Stevenson's ‘Kidnapped’ country Example sentencesExamples Once you arrive at D.H. Lawrence Country you can begin to enjoy the Lawrence countryside which he referred to as ‘The Country of my Heart’. A farming family in Herriot country is offering death with dignity for all creatures great and small. This area is also famous as Macbeth Country, and the The Birnam Wood, made famous by the witches' prophesy in Shakespeare's MacBeth, is on the south bank of the River Tay. 4 short for country music Phrases across country Not keeping to roads. their route was across country, through fields of corn Example sentencesExamples ‘As Brits, we would have benefited from a bigger challenge across country,’ he says. And really, he wants to date her, so he agrees to take her kids in a road trip across country. More than a dozen highly contagious and potentially lethal diseases can be spread by horses, hounds, and hunt followers as they race across country. Most people came down the motorway or across country, they found their way and were impressed with the facilities. So it made the drive easier if not slightly disturbing since he was used to women talking up a storm on a road trip across country. We looped off the road and went again across country. She was forced to struggle in severe weather and in darkness across country to seek assistance in a highly distressed state and suffering from hypothermia. Whether you're packing to go for a walk to the park or your planning a trip across country, when your travelling with toddlers packing poses a problem. Two-thirds of it will be on roads and the rest across country. Meanwhile, your baby sister is eloping with her French teacher and your boyfriend is hitchhiking across country to surf on the opposite coast. go (or appeal) to the country Test public opinion by dissolving Parliament and holding a general election. the prime minister had been due to go to the country by November Example sentencesExamples Our party believes we are having a positive role in Government, working step by step to implement policies that we went to the country on. He should begin negotiations now with the European Central Bank, and go to the country with a clear policy, a firm commitment and a united government. The delayed date still leaves him open to criticism from farmers, country dwellers and the Opposition for going to the country while the disease continues its strong grip on the nation. In today's Independent on Sunday newspaper a poll of 110 Labour backbenchers showed only 45% openly in favour of going to the country on May 3. What political party has ever gone to the country with such a feeble platform? Supposing that I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and that we must be armed, does anyone think that our pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry? Not since the Labour's longest suicide note in 1983 has a political party gone to the country with such an incredible economic policy. If only he had been able to go to the country when he wanted, instead of having to wait nearly 12 agonising months. By a cruel irony, the decisive moment will probably have come on the afternoon of May 3 - the very day when he originally planned to go to the country. Haughey went to the country after the opposition rejected government compensation proposals for haemophiliacs, which they said were too low. one's line of country A subject in which one is skilled or knowledgeable. anagrams are not in my line of country Example sentencesExamples Certainly it is not in the line of country that your Honour was talking about. ‘Funny that, I had someone who shares your line of country in during the week,’ said Bob. At the same time we're being encouraged to publish stuff in hard copy in journals, refereed journals and refereed books, which is my line of country. Synonyms responsibility, duty, concern, province, aim, activity, assignment, obligation, charge Origin Middle English: from Old French cuntree, from medieval Latin contrata (terra) '(land) lying opposite', from Latin contra 'against, opposite'. Country comes from medieval Latin contrata terra, meaning ‘the land lying opposite, the landscape spread out in front of you’. This is based on Latin contra ‘against or opposite’ and terra ‘land’, the source of words at terrace. A country fit for heroes to live in is a phrase associated with the British prime minister David Lloyd George (1863–1945). In a speech in 1918, he said ‘What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.’ A person from a rural background who is unfamiliar with, and alarmed by, urban life can be called a country mouse. The allusion is to one of Aesop's fables, which contrasts the country mouse with the streetwise city-dwelling town mouse. In the fable each mouse visits the other, but is in the end convinced of the superiority of its own home. Rhymes upcountry noun.1 phr. Definition of country in US English: country nounˈkəntrēˈkəntri 1A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory. the country's increasingly precarious economic position Example sentencesExamples It was possible for an Australian writer to get that kind of attention outside of the country. It seems like everyone you talk to is keeping their eyes open for a job opportunity outside of the country. The Government should take action and start thinking about how the country looks on the outside. In some ways it seems like a better option for some countries to turn to democracy. It is more than four times what all the European Union countries together spend on arms. They are fearful that they will follow in the local district courts around the country. We had not yet been able to find the way to overcome this obstacle to the revolution in our countries. It is common for towns and cities in different countries to twin with each other. It was shocking to me how many people came from outside the country to give him support. Most of the evacuees have been taken on buses to the various states outside the country. This will reduce the range of cheap drugs available to African and other countries. Taking a cross-section of the country would reveal an urban versus rural spilt. The four-bedroomed property is in a suburb of the country's capital Colombo. In more and more countries around the world output is now stalling, if not falling. It seems that there are a few differences in public domain laws in different countries. While he is right about the sale and price of milk, all of this milk is not coming from outside the country. The technology has been so successful that they say it is likely to be copied in other urban areas across the country. The rest of the country might perceive areas like the Lake District to be prosperous. Many mangrove forest areas along the country's coast have been converted into fish farms. I love watching the news in other countries just to see how little coverage we get. Does a common hatred of a third country reduce the chance of war between two countries? He also wants European states to slash aid to the poor countries that refugees flee from. With the reunification of Germany, Berlin became once again the capital of the country. Synonyms state, nation, sovereign state, kingdom, realm, territory, province, principality, palatinate, duchy, empire, commonwealth homeland, native land, native soil, fatherland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, birthplace 1.1the country The people of a nation. the whole country took to the streets Example sentencesExamples Actually, The paoer's attitude to celebrities reflects the country as a whole. The rest of the country has had its collective voice ignored for too long - we must be heard! Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way. Football, and I would argue the country as a whole, is a little less colourful for the loss of one of it's greatest men. How does England's stunning rugby World Cup victory affect the country as a whole? Many argue this would keep the country moving while suitable public transport alternatives are worked out. I cannot avoid the conclusion that the country's whole political class has, thus far, failed it. It seemed the whole of the country was there in one form or another. Over the past 12 months, the country as a whole has seen a series of appalling incidents involving guns. Education is so important, important for the country as a whole, not just the individual. He feels the story is relevant in the context of communal tensions the country is facing now. But he or she needs to be seen to have the support of the country as a whole, as well as the goods to do the job. Let's leave motorists alone and concentrate on the many other problems within the borough and the country as a whole. In theory the whole of the country could be represented at a meeting of the Estates. Within the country as a whole though, the antipathy towards the party baffles me. Eight of our GCSE candidates were awarded one of the top 5 marks in the whole of the country. The morale of the army only reflected that of the country as a whole. Incentives and discipline work together to secure a desirable outcome for the country as a whole. On the Monday the country enjoyed a public holiday to celebrate the Queen's Birthday. In a recent national poll she was voted as one of the country's most popular women - second only to the Queen. Synonyms people, public, general public, population, populace, community, citizenry, nation, body politic, collective 2often the countryDistricts and small settlements outside large towns, cities, or the capital. the airfield is right out in the country as modifier a country lane Example sentencesExamples A campaign group has been launched in an attempt to stop people dying on the country lanes of the region. It is about time the country areas got their fair share of the road grants. It is vitally important that the people here are united in this thrust to depopulate the country area. The Empress went to the country for the day with her son and left me in charge. The French, it is claimed, have now rediscovered family life, love and liberty, and hairdressers called Madame Niki can close on a Friday and go to the country. He had gone to the country just before Christmas and was believed to be staying for a month. We went to the city, but we also went to the country… it's so pretty out there. The affairs of the town, the country and the outside world meant little to them. Then he said they had died in a gun battle with soldiers on a country road outside the capital. The objective evidence that the violence from the GIA are mainly confined to the country areas. So I went to the country for the weekend - that's the countryside, those large stretches of verdant open land between the towns and cities. You hear everywhere that they are calling out for more nurses and definitely for the country area. The three of us speed off out of Nottingham, through the centre of Derby, and out onto the country lanes beyond. We race through Urus-Martan, a large central Chechen settlement, and rocky country lanes. Shoppers, workers and students we spoke to complained of the country roads outside the town. Wireless technology is the cheapest and easiest means of connecting the country to the outside world. Synonyms countryside, green belt, great outdoors 3An area or region with regard to its physical features. a tract of wild country Example sentencesExamples Everyone else involved is to spend a winter in the high country with the wild brumbies. She had gone to bathe before she prepared for a long and wearying journey across wild country. Perhaps a verdant temperate country with beautiful wild flowers and cute native animals? But his true appeal lies in his own personal evocation of wild country. Miles and miles of razor wire and guards and forests, then really broken land, very hard country. This opens up a fine panorama of the surrounding hill country, with peak upon peak now in sight. For a dry, desert country the greenery in this area makes for a striking contrast. They spend the summer in wild country, haunting the great flows of Sutherland. Moldova is on a fertile plain with small areas of hill country in the center and north. It was a wild, rugged country that used horses and carts for transport and grew wheat in their fields. The book focuses on Gippsland's high country and the long history of the area. It is a wild and woolly country which drew me in and one that continues to find new ways to embrace me. Synonyms terrain, land, territory, parts 3.1 A region associated with a particular person, especially a writer, or with a particular work. Steinbeck country includes the Monterey Peninsula Example sentencesExamples Once you arrive at D.H. Lawrence Country you can begin to enjoy the Lawrence countryside which he referred to as ‘The Country of my Heart’. A farming family in Herriot country is offering death with dignity for all creatures great and small. This area is also famous as Macbeth Country, and the The Birnam Wood, made famous by the witches' prophesy in Shakespeare's MacBeth, is on the south bank of the River Tay. 4 short for country music Phrases across country Not keeping to roads. their route was across country, through fields of corn Example sentencesExamples We looped off the road and went again across country. And really, he wants to date her, so he agrees to take her kids in a road trip across country. More than a dozen highly contagious and potentially lethal diseases can be spread by horses, hounds, and hunt followers as they race across country. ‘As Brits, we would have benefited from a bigger challenge across country,’ he says. Two-thirds of it will be on roads and the rest across country. She was forced to struggle in severe weather and in darkness across country to seek assistance in a highly distressed state and suffering from hypothermia. Whether you're packing to go for a walk to the park or your planning a trip across country, when your travelling with toddlers packing poses a problem. Most people came down the motorway or across country, they found their way and were impressed with the facilities. Meanwhile, your baby sister is eloping with her French teacher and your boyfriend is hitchhiking across country to surf on the opposite coast. So it made the drive easier if not slightly disturbing since he was used to women talking up a storm on a road trip across country. Origin Middle English: from Old French cuntree, from medieval Latin contrata (terra) ‘(land) lying opposite’, from Latin contra ‘against, opposite’. noun.1 phr.
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