1. A nation or state.
2. the territory of a nation or state; land.
3. the people of a nation or state; populace: the whole country will profit from the new economic reforms.
4. the land of a person's birth or citizenship: foreign travel is restricted in his country.
5. A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture: hill country; bible country.
6. an area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area: a vacation in the country.
7. law A jury.
8. informal country music.
9. of, relating to, or typical of the country: a country road; country cooking.
10. of or relating to country music.
11. in country in vietnam during the period of U.S. military operations there: "he'd been in country a month longer than the other four” ( nelson DeMille).

1. from the countryside or connected with it.
2. of or connected to country music.

1. pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic.
2. destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane.
3. pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
4. A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
5. rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
6. the inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. hence: (a) one's constituents. (b) the whole body of the electors of state.
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8. A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
9. the inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
10. the rock through which a vein runs.

1. A region; a district of indefinite extent present to the view or thought, being or considered as the locality of residence, travel, exploration, or other action, or of description: as, a new country; a wild country; a rugged country; an unexplored country; the countries of central asia.
2. the territory of a nation; an independent state, or a region once independent, and still distinct in name, population, or institutions, as england, scotland, and wales in great britain, the several states of the austrian and german empires, etc.
3. the rural parts of a region, as opposed to cities or towns.
4. the place of one's nativity or citizenship; one's native soil; the land of one's nationality or allegiance by birth or adoption.
5. the inhabitants of a country; the people; the public.
6. specifically in law, the public at large, as represented by a jury: as, a trial by the country; his plea concluded to the country (that is, it ended by requiring the submission of the issue to a jury).
7. in law, any place other than a court: as, a deed in the country, as opposed to an alienation by record—that is, in court.
8. in mining, the rock adjacent to the lode; the formation in which any mineral vein or deposit is inclosed. sometimes called country-rock.
9. nautical, that part of an apartment on board ship used in common by all officers of the same mess: as, the ward-room country.
10. pertaining or peculiar to one's own country; national; native.
11. pertaining or belonging to the country or to the rural parts of a region; being or living in the country; rural; rustic: as, country roads: country customs; a country gentleman; country cousins; a country life; the country party, as opposed to the city party.
12. characteristic of the country or rural regions; hence, rustic; rude; unpolished: as, country manners.
13. the parts of a cricket-field covered by the out-fielders; the long- or deep-field.

1. an area outside of cities and towns
2. the territory occupied by a nation
3. a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
4. the people who live in a nation or country
5. a politically organized body of people under a single government