country
country - English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: kŭn'tri
- (UK, US, Canada) IPA: /ˈkʌntɹi/, [ˈkʰʌnt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷi], /ˈkʌntɹɪ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈkɐntɹi/
- (common in ESL) IPA: /ˈkaʊntɹi/
- Hyphenation: coun‧try
Noun
country (plural countries)
- (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
- A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
- The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
- Synonyms: see country
- (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
- Ellipsis of country music.
- a country song
- a country singer
- a country festival
- (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
Usage notes
The geographical sense of "country" usually refers to a sovereign state, that is, a nation with no administrative dependence on another one, which is the definition adopted in most world maps. In a broader sense, however, "country" may also refer to nations with some degree of autonomy and cultural identity but still under the sovereignty of another state. Examples of the latter include Scotland, Tibet, Abkhazia, and Greenland.
Hyponyms
See also country.
Hyponyms of country (noun)
Derived terms
Terms derived from country (noun)
- accession country
- across country
- alt-country
- alternative country
- another country heard from
- a prophet has no honor in his own country
- a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
- back country
- bro-country
- bro country
- Constable country
- constituent country
- countrify
- country & western
- country-and-western
- country-blues
- country-damaged
- country-dance
- country-fried
- country-fried steak
- country-rock
- country-side
- country-western
- country-western music
- country and western
- country beam
- country blues
- country bookie
- country box
- country bumpkin
- country captain
- country club
- country code
- country cousin
- country cousin
- country dance
- country dancing
- country gentleman
- country gravy
- country ham
- country house
- country lane
- country merchant
- country mile
- country music
- country of origin
- country of provenance
- country park
- country pop
- country rap
- country rock
- country sausage
- country seat
- country ship
- countryside
- country side
- country store
- country team
- countrywide
- country wife
- country wine
- cross-country
- cross-country ski
- cross-country skier
- cross-country skiing
- cross country
- cross country skiing
- developed country
- Elvis country
- flyover country
- foreign country
- free country
- fresh country eggs
- go country
- God's country
- God's own country
- go to the country
- hill country blues
- home country
- host country
- in-country
- in country
- it's a free country
- mother country
- neotraditional country
- Nordic country
- north country
- old-time country
- outlaw country
- outside country
- pure country
- socialism in one country
- step-country
- third country
- tiger country
- Trump country
- up the country people
- X-country
Descendants
- Nigerian Pidgin: kontri
- Sranan Tongo: kondre
- Tok Pisin: kantri
- ⇒ Chinese: 港腳／港脚 (gǎngjiǎo)
- → Finnish: country, kantri
- → French: country
- → Italian: country
- → Japanese: カントリー (kantorī)
- → Polish: country
- → Portuguese: country
- → Romanian: country
- → Russian: ка́нтри (kántri)
- → Spanish: country
- → Swedish: country
Translations
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Adjective
country (not comparable)
- From or in the countryside or connected with it.
- Of or connected to country music.
- (India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
Translations
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country - Finnish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkɑntri/, [ˈkɑ̝n̪t̪ri]
Noun
country
Declension
| Inflection of country (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | country | — | ||
| genitive | countryn | — | ||
| partitive | countrya | — | ||
| illative | countryyn | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | country | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | country | — | |
| gen. | countryn | |||
| genitive | countryn | — | ||
| partitive | countrya | — | ||
| inessive | countryssa | — | ||
| elative | countrysta | — | ||
| illative | countryyn | — | ||
| adessive | countrylla | — | ||
| ablative | countrylta | — | ||
| allative | countrylle | — | ||
| essive | countryna | — | ||
| translative | countryksi | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| abessive | countrytta | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
country - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kœ̃.tʁi/
Noun
country m (uncountable)
country - Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkawn.tri/, (careful style) /ˈkan.tri/
Noun
country m (invariable)
country - Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkan.trɨ/
- Syllabification: coun‧try
Noun
country n (indeclinable)
Derived terms
adjectives
- countrowy
- country'owy
country - Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃w̃.tɾi/ [ˈkɐ̃ʊ̯̃.tɾi]
Noun
country m (uncountable)
country - Romanian
Adjective
country m or n (feminine singular countryă, masculine plural countryi, feminine and neuter plural countrye)
- country (music)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | country | countryă | countryi | countrye | ||
| definite | countryul | countrya | countryii | countryele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | country | countrye | countryi | countrye | ||
| definite | countryului | countryei | countryilor | countryelor | |||
country - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkantɾi/ [ˈkãn̪.t̪ɾi]
Noun
country m (uncountable)
country - Swedish
Noun
country c (uncountable)
Declension
| Declension of country | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | country | countryn | — | — |
| Genitive | countrys | countryns | — | — |