Country

Etymology
contree:, contre:, from contree:, from Vulgar Latin (terra:) contrata:, derived from contra:.

Noun

 * 1) An area of land; a district, region.
 * 2) * 2010, David Vann, The Observer, 7 Mar 2010:
 * We walk along flat, open country, red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees [...].
 * 1) A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
 * 2) * 2007, Chris Moss, The Guardian, 17 Feb 2007:
 * This is condor country - the only region this far east where you can see the magnificent vulture - and a small national park straddling the passes, El Condorito, is a good stopover for walkers and birders.
 * 1) The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
 * 2) * 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 3:
 * It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.
 * 1) * 2010, The Economist, 3 Feb 2011:
 * These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
 * 1)  A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
 * 2) * 2000, Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian, 4 Mar 2000:
 * I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in the country is the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.
 * 1) Country music.

Adjectives
beloved; enchanting; interesting; advanced; aristocratic; conservative; quaint; small; peaceful; diminutive; weak; underdeveloped; backward; crude; great; mesa; plain; broken; art-producing; flourishing; mountainous; picturesque; cultivated; unrevealed; continental; twilight; desolate; extensive; open; nightmare; exotic; surrounding; drowsy; outlying; inefficient; dun; solitary; barren; sterile; inaccessible; agricultural; wasted; undulating; fainting; familiar; roadless; pine; principal; competing; swampy; illustrious; standardized; gracious; adoptive; thinly-settled; mysterious; semi-pastoral; neighboring; ravaged; habitable; promising; useless; indissoluble; watered; wooded; unexplored; rolling; songless; primitive; modern; poor; parsimonious; unhappy; secluded; peaceful; virgin; unspoiled; exquisite; rugged; arid; dry; dead; deserted; prairie; landscape; imperiled; proud; timbered; droll; level; populous; self-lifted; alpine; respective; lonesome; prosperous;  fresh; civilized; undiscovered; fragrant; invaded; over¬crowded; thankless; farming; ungraded; hard; unoffending.

Verbs
assault—; benefit—; bleed—; bombard—; conquer—; depart from—;  desolate—; despoil—; devastate—; distress—; dominate—; dumbfound—; exploit—; fortify—; free—; govern—; honor—; invade—; lay waste—; love—; march through—; plunge ——into war; ravish—; repair to—; rever¬ence—; return—; rouse—; ruin—; saddle —; salute—; scurry about—; serve—; travel—; unify—; —endures; —protects; —seethes; —tries.

Adjective

 * 1) From the countryside or connected with it.
 * 2) Of or connected to country music.

Thesaurus
Arcadian, acres, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, area, belt, blue-ribbon jury, boondocks, bucolic, campestral, clay, clod, confines, continental shelf, corridor, countrified, countryside, crust, department, dirt, district, division, dry land, dust, earth, environs, farm, fatherland, freehold, glebe, grand jury, grassland, ground, heartland, hinterland, home, homeland, hung jury, inquest, jury, jury list, jury of inquest, jury of matrons, jury panel, land, landholdings, lithosphere, lowland, marginal land, marl, milieu, mold, mother country, motherland, mountains, nation, native land, neighborhood, offshore rights, outback, outland, panel, part, parts, pastoral, petit jury, place, police jury, power, precincts, premises, provinces, provincial, purlieus, quarter, real estate, real property, realm, region, regolith, rural, rustic, salient, section, sessions, sod, soil, space, special jury, state, sticks, subaerial deposit, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, three-mile limit, topsoil, trial jury, twelve-mile limit, upland, venire, vicinage, vicinity, wilderness, woodland, woods, zone

Noun

 * Arabic: (wilāya),  (wilayāt)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 國家, 国家
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:, landa
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Korean:
 * Korean:


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zeme
 * Lithuanian: šalis
 * Low Saxon:
 * Luxembourgish: Land
 * Macedonian: земја
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: ,
 * Ojibwe: aki, akiin
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: pajais
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dùthaich
 * Serbian:, , ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: U- (noun prefix 11/14)
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: країна
 * West Frisian:
 * West Frisian:


 * Afrikaans: land
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بلد, (bilaad),  (buldān) ; وطن,  (’awṭān)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: краіна, дзержава
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Breton: bro, broioù
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: နိုင်ငံ
 * Catalan: país
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏣᎳᎩᎦᏙᎯ (anitsalagigadohi)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 國家, 国家
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ; ;
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: ארץ, מדינה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:, nazione, patria
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada: ದೇಶ, ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ
 * Khmer: ស្រុក, ប្រទេស
 * Korean:, (國家)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: welat
 * Sorani: وڵات
 * Lao: ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: ,


 * Lithuanian:, šalis, kraštas
 * Low Saxon: land
 * Luxembourgish: Land, Staat
 * Macedonian:, земја, нациja
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: രാജ്യം (raajyam)
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: ,
 * Ojibwe: aki, akiin
 * Persian: کشور, میهن, سرزمین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi: ਦੇਸ਼ (dēś), ਮੂਲਕ (mūlak), ਰਾਸ਼ਟਰ (rāśṭar)
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:, , stat
 * Romansch: pajais
 * Russian:, государство, держава, край
 * Sanskrit: देशः, राष्ट्र
 * Scottish Gaelic: dùthaich, talamh, tìr
 * Serbian:, , , , ĸpajинa, , otačbina
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: U- (noun prefix 11/14), dola sg/pl (noun 9/10), inchi sg/pl (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bansa
 * Taos: pǫ̏’óna
 * Telugu: దేశము
 * Thai: ประเทศ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Uab Meto:
 * Ukrainian: країна, держава
 * Urdu: دیش, راشٹر
 * Vietnamese: quốc gia (國家), tổ quốc, quê hương,  ,
 * Volapük: län
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Albanian: fshat
 * Arabic: (ar-riif),  (al-’aryaaf)
 * Armenian: գյուղ (gyuġ),
 * Azeri: kənd
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: maez, maezioù
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: camp
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鄉下, 乡下
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: platteland, open veld
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ; ;
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, campagna
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 시골 (sigol)
 * Latgalian: ,


 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: lauki
 * Lithuanian: kaimas
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: നാട്ടുമ്പുറം (naattumpuRam), ഗ്രാമം (graamam)
 * Norwegian: landsbygd
 * Novial:
 * Persian:, حومه شهر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: cuntrada
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dùthaich
 * Serbian: село,, dedinje
 * Slovak:, vidiek
 * Slovene: podeželje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, mashamba (noun 5/6)
 * Swedish: landsbygd, landet, landsort
 * Thai: ชนบท
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: tỉnn
 * West Frisian: boerelân


 * Armenian: քանթրի
 * Bulgarian: кънтри
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鄉村, 乡村
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: カントリー
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: кантри
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: кантри
 * Spanish: ranchera

Adjective

 * Arabic: (rīfi),
 * Armenian: գյուղական,
 * Breton: diwar ar maez
 * Bulgarian: провинциален
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鄉下, 乡下, 鄉村, 乡村
 * Dutch: plattelands, boeren-, land-
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: de la campagne, de province, de la contrée
 * German: ländlich, Land-
 * Greek: αγροτικός (agrotikós), εξοχικός (exochikós), επαρχιώτικος (eparchiótikos)
 * Hebrew: כפרי (kafry), כפרית (kafryt)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: rural, campestre
 * Italian: di campagna, rurale
 * Japanese: 田舎 (いなか, inaká), 田舎の (いなかの, inaká no), 田園 (でんえん, den’en), 地方の (ちほうの, chihō no)
 * Korean: 시골 (sigol), 시골의 (sigol-ui)


 * Latin: paganus, rusticus, rusticanus, rusticulus; rustice (adv.)
 * Latvian: lauku, lauku-
 * Lithuanian: kaimo, kaimiškas
 * Macedonian: селски
 * Norwegian: landsens
 * Novial: rural
 * Persian: (rustāyi),  حاشیه نشین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: rural, campestre, do campo, grosseiro
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: деревенский (derevénskij), сельский (sél’skij)
 * Scottish Gaelic: dùthchail, tìreil
 * Slovak: dedinský, dedinská , dedinské ; vidiecky , vidiecka , vidiecke
 * Slovene: podeželsko, vaško
 * Spanish:, , , , provinciano
 * Swahili: -a kimashamba
 * Swedish: land-, lands-
 * Thai: (thaang chohn bòht)
 * Turkish:
 * Yiddish: דאָרפֿיש

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1) country music

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1)  country music