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Country Definition

(adv.) 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.

(adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

(adv.) 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; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.

(adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.

(adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.

(adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.

(a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

(a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

(a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.