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country
Found in thesaurus: administrative division, administrative district, territorial division, political unit, political entity, people, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region, geographical area
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country
adj.
rural, located away from urban areas
n.
state, nation; region; rural area; inhabitants of a particular nation; one's homeland, one's native land; any region or district that has distinct qualities; rural area, small settlements outside large cities, area away from big towns; country music
the country
n.
rural area; people of a nation; the people who live in a country
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Country
A country is a region that is identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.
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country
Noun
1. the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
(synonym) state, land
(hypernym) administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
(hyponym) banana republic
(member-meronym) department
(part-meronym) domain, demesne, land
2. a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"
(synonym) state, nation, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
(hypernym) political unit
(hyponym) Dominion
(part-meronym) estate, estate of the realm
3. the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"
(synonym) nation, land, a people
(hypernym) people
(hyponym) Dutch, Dutch people
(member-meronym) national, subject
4. an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"
(synonym) rural area
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(hyponym) backwoods, back country, boondocks, hinterland
(part-meronym) pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley
5. a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"
(synonym) area
(hypernym) region
(hyponym) arena
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country
adj.
country
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country
n.
country, state, nation; region; rural area; inhabitants of a particular nation; one's homeland, one's native land; any region or district that has distinct qualities
