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noun

ˈkən-trē How to pronounce country (audio)
Definition of countrynext
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as in home
the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship a great love for my country

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as in countryside
the open rural area outside of big towns and cities out in the country, where the air is fresh and the rivers are clean

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as in nation
a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government usually in time of war, the whole country unites behind the president

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country

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adjective

as in rural
of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people plain country living among unpretentious people

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Recent Examples of country
Noun
The team is spread across different countries and time zones, but everyone brings specialist knowledge to the project. — New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026 The unrest began in France in mid-September with student demonstrations over school conditions, then spread to other countries, where protests have centered on local grievances. — Amanda MacIas, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Adjective
The hantavirus outbreak aboard the Hondius last month prompted a multi-country response and the hospitalization of passengers in Britain, France, Spain and the United States. — ABC News, 13 May 2026 According to the report, the multi-country Global Monitoring System between April 2024 and March of this year identified about 22,000 ads for 267,000 wildlife products, involving about 8,500 live animals and about 258,000 items of animal meat, parts and extracts. — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for country
Recent Examples of Synonyms for country
  1. home
  2. countryside
  3. nation
  4. rural
  5. homeland
  6. state
Noun
  • Fellig says one of his clients recently bought a home for $30 million and got a $35 million offer to sell it a month later.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • For Crystal, this occurred at the end of 2025, his annus horribilis, when Reiner and wife Michelle were found stabbed to death at their Brentwood home.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of home
Noun
  • Three Houthi officials said the rebel group controls roughly 80% of the countryside surrounding Taiz and several key neighborhoods inside the city.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The group now runs 15 hotels throughout Europe, including city hotels in Paris, London, and Venice, countryside estates in the Cotswolds and Biarritz, mountain chalets in Verbier and Val d’Isère, and seaside resorts in Ibiza and Menorca.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of countryside
Noun
  • Sectarian tensions and the disrupting force of the Cold War plunged the Middle Eastern nation into decades of armed conflict, with a chilling effect on daily life.
    — Shy Clara Thompson, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
  • And the last independent country in that land before modern Israel, the one Rome conquered, was--wait for it--a Jewish nation.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of nation
Adjective
  • Seventy-one percent also doubt that his village cooperatives policy—which plans to establish hubs in roughly 80,000 communities to handle basic-goods distribution, savings, and other rural services—would succeed.
    — Jay Ganglani, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Jackson is sounding the alarm over sluggish early voting across deep-red rural Georgia, warning that complacency in GOP strongholds could jeopardize his bid for governor.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of rural
Noun
  • What enters a watershed upstream can affect communities, ecosystems, wildlife and cultural resources downstream — including resources within our ancestral homelands.
    — Dana Adkins, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In July, the council voted 5-2 to renew a federal homeland security grant agreement supporting the Central California Intelligence Center, with Maple and Vang opposed.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of homeland
Noun
  • Advocates tout the measure as the most comprehensive update in a decade to the state's firearms laws.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In both Michigan and Ohio, college and professional football have been a subplot of the toss-up Senate races in each state.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of state

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“Country.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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