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Alternative forms
[edit]- contree,countrey(archaic)
- contrey,countre,countrie,counterie,obsolete
- counthry,pronunciation spelling
Etymology
[edit]FromMiddle Englishcontre,contree,contreie,fromOld Frenchcontree,fromVulgar Latin(terra)contrāta(“(land) lying opposite; (land) spread before”),derived fromLatincontra(“against, opposite”).Unrelated tocounty.Cognate withScotskintra.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR:kŭn'tri
Audio(UK): (file) Audio(US): (file) - (General Australian,New Zealand)IPA(key):/ˈkɐntɹi/
- (common in ESL)IPA(key):/ˈkaʊntɹi/
- Hyphenation:coun‧try
- Rhymes:(UK, US, Canada)-ʌntɹi
Noun
[edit]country(pluralcountries)
- The territory of anation,especially an independentnation stateor formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; asovereign state.[from 14th c.]
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:country
- 1935,George Goodchild,chapter 5, inDeath on the Centre Court:
- By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc.[…]The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of thecountry.
- 1994,Nelson Mandela,Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela,London:Abacus,published2010,page 3:
- It is a beautifulcountryof rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.
- 2010,The Economist,3 Feb 2011:
- These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, thecountry’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
- 2013June 22, “T time”,inThe Economist,volume407,number8841,page68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-taxcountriesby locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-taxcountries,is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
- A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the samerace,speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.[from 13th c.]
- 2007February 17, Chris Moss,The Guardian:
- This is condorcountry– the only region this far east where you can see the magnificent vulture – and a small national park straddling the passes, El Condorito, is a good stopover for walkers and birders.
- (uncountable,usually preceded by “the”)A rural area, as opposed to atownorcity;thecountryside.[from 16th c.]
- 1603,Michel de Montaigne,chapter 17, inJohn Florio,transl.,The Essayes[…],book II, London:[…]Val[entine]SimmesforEdward Blount[…],→OCLC:
- I was borne and brought up in theCountrie,and amidst husbandry[…].
- 2000March 4, Alexander Chancellor,The Guardian:
- I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in thecountryis the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.
- 2006May, James B. Weld,Difficulties in Learning English as a Second or Foreign Language[1],Regis University,page37:
- She grew up in Chang-hua, a city in central Taiwan with a decidedlycountryflavor.
- (chieflyBritish)An area of land; adistrict,region.[from 13th c.]
- 2010March 7, David Vann,The Observer:
- We walk along flat, opencountry,red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees[…].
- (Australia,usually capitalised)Traditionallands ofIndigenouspeople withembeddedcultural,spiritual,cosmological,ecological,andphysicalattributes and values.
- 1842February 16,The Inquirer,Perth, page 5, column 2:
- "Me like mycountry— no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say,thisour land,thatour land — ALLcountryour land. Black fellow say no! mycountryno white fellow'scountry,and black fellow take spear.
- 1945September 27,The Chronicle,Adelaide, page35,column 4:
- "Yewi," he said, "me bin longa Fanny Bay gaol five years." On my asking why they put him in gaol he replied. "Australia yourcountry,ain't it? "I replied," Yes, him mycountryall right. "" Well, "he then said," this mycountryhere. Brinkencountryother side of the river ain't it? "" That's right, "said I." Well, "said Jack," supposem Japanese come longa thiscountryand you killem, you good man, but suppose Brinken come longa mycountryhere, and I kill him, police man put me longa Fanny Bay for five years. That is the law. "
- 2008July 23,The Torres News,page 5, column 1:
- "It demonstrates that having Indigenous people oncountrymanaging their lands, delivering environmental benefits for all Australians is an important asset for the national good. "
- 2015March 11, Calla Wahlquist, “Of three remote communities here, why are only the two Aboriginal ones under threat?”, inThe Guardian[2],London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon2022-10-07:
- Milgin says living oncountry,with elders, makes Aboriginal people "strong". That's backed up by a 2011 report on Aboriginal homelands by Amnesty International that found that living on homelands was connected to better health outcomes and drug rehabilitation.
- 2021July 8,The Air Force News,page16,column 2:
- Whatcountrydo you live/work on? I work on Yuggera Yuggarapulcountryand I'm from Darwin, Larrakiacountry.
- Ellipsisofcountry music.[from 20th c.]
- acountrysong
- acountrysinger
- acountryfestival
- (mining)Therockthrough which aveinruns.
Usage notes
[edit]The geographical sense of "country" usually refers to asovereign 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 polities with some degree of autonomy and cultural identity but still under the sovereignty of another state. Examples of the latter includeScotland,Tibet,Abkhazia,andGreenland.Such usage may be interpreted as supportingsecessionismof these polities by others.
Hyponyms
[edit]See alsoThesaurus:country.
Hyponyms ofcountry(noun)
Derived terms
[edit]- accession country
- across country
- alt-country
- alternative country
- another country heard from
- anticountry
- a prophet has no honor in his own country
- a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
- back country
- backcountry
- Black Country
- bro-country
- bro country
- Constable country
- constituent country
- countrification
- countrify
- country & western
- country and western
- country-and-western
- countryball
- country beam
- country beer
- country-blues
- country blues
- country bookie
- country box
- country bumpkin
- country captain
- country club
- country code
- country cousin
- country damage
- country-damaged
- country dance
- country-dance
- country dancing
- countryfication
- country fig
- countryfolk
- country-fried
- country-fried steak
- countryful
- country gentleman
- country gravy
- country ham
- countryhood
- country house
- countryhuman
- countryish
- country Joan
- country lane
- countryless
- countrylike
- countrymade
- countryman
- countrymate
- country merchant
- country mile
- country music
- country of origin
- country of provenance
- country park
- countryperson
- country pop
- country punk
- country rap
- country road
- country rock
- country-rock
- country sausage
- country seat
- country ship
- countryship
- country side
- country-side
- countryside
- country stop
- country store
- country team
- countryward
- countrywards
- countrywear
- country-western
- country-western music
- countrywide
- country wife
- country wine
- countrywoman
- cross country
- cross-country
- cross-country ski
- cross-country skier
- cross-country skiing
- cross country skiing
- cuntry
- developed country
- Elvis country
- flyover country
- foreign country
- free country
- fresh country egg
- fresh country eggs
- frontcountry
- go country
- God's country
- God's own country
- go to the country
- hill country blues
- home country
- host country
- in country
- in-country
- intercountry
- intracountry
- it's a free country
- line of country
- Lowcountry
- microcountry
- mini-independent country
- model country
- mother country
- multicountry
- neotraditional country
- new country project
- noncountry
- Nordic country
- north country
- old-time country
- outlaw country
- outside country
- pure country
- socialism in one country
- step-country
- third country
- tiger country
- transcountry
- Trump country
- up the country people
- X-country
Descendants
[edit]- Jamaican Creole:konchri
- Krio:kɔntri
- Nigerian Pidgin:kontri
- Sranan Tongo:kondre
- Tok Pisin:kantri
- →Arabic:كَانْتْرِي(kāntrī)
- ⇒Chinese:Cảng cước／Cảng cước(gǎngjiǎo)
- →Finnish:country,kantri
- →French:country
- →Italian:country
- →Japanese:カントリー(kantorī)
- →Korean:컨트리(keonteuri)
- →Norwegian Bokmål:køntri
- →Norwegian Nynorsk:køntri
- →Polish:country
- →Portuguese:country
- →Romanian:country
- →Russian:ка́нтри(kántri)
- →Kazakh:кантри(kantri)
- →Spanish:country
- →Swedish:country
- →Ukrainian:ка́нтрі(kántri)
Translations
[edit]region of land
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nation state
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the country, rural area, as opposed to the town or city
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country music
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See also
[edit]Adjective
[edit]country(notcomparable)
- From or in thecountrysideor connected with it.
- 1897December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill,chapter V, inThe Celebrity: An Episode,New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company;London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
- When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been acountrystorekeeper.
- Of or connected tocountry music.
- (India,historical)Originating inIndiarather than being imported fromEuropeor elsewhere.
- 1872,Silk in India,page16:
- We have seen that the Company manufactured silk stuffs at three of its Residencies, but fromcountry-wound silk.
- 1884,Journal of the United Service Institution of India,page185:
- A reference to the Annual Administration Reports of the Department of Horse-breeding Operations[…]will allow of the opinion being arrived at, that the breed ofcountryhorses under the present regime is steadily improving.
- 1937,Brigadier-General H. A. Young,The East India Company’s Arsenals & Manufactories:
- Countryharness costs nearly as much, lasts half the time, and is in every respect inferior. It is understood that the only reason is that the Court desires to improve and encourage Indian manufactures.
Translations
[edit]of, from or pertaining to the countryside(adjective)
References
[edit]- “country”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.
- country inKeywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary,edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "country" in Raymond Williams,Keywords(revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 81.
- “country”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.
Basque
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]countryinan
Declension
[edit]Declension ofcountry(inanimate, singular only, ending in vowel)
| indefinite | singular | |
|---|---|---|
| absolutive | country | country-a |
| ergative | — | country-ak |
| dative | — | country-ari |
| genitive | — | country-aren |
| comitative | — | country-arekin |
| causative | — | country-arengatik |
| benefactive | — | country-arentzat |
| instrumental | country-z | country-az |
| inessive | — | country-an |
| locative | — | — |
| allative | — | — |
| terminative | — | — |
| directive | — | — |
| destinative | — | — |
| ablative | — | — |
| partitive | country-rik | — |
| prolative | country-tzat | — |
Further reading
[edit]- “country”,inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia[Dictionary of the Basque Academy],Euskaltzaindia
Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishcountry.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]country
Declension
[edit]| Inflectionofcountry(Kotustype 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 | — | |
| abessive | countrytta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “country”,inKielitoimiston sanakirja[Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3](in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus(Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–,retrieved2023-07-02
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]countrym(uncountable)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishcountry.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]countrym(invariable)
References
[edit]- ^countryinLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pseudo-anglicism,derived fromcountry music.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]countryn(indeclinable)
Derived terms
[edit]adjectives
Further reading
[edit]- countryinWielki słownik języka polskiego,Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- countryin Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishcountry.
The pronunciation reflects the incorrect belief that the <oun> represents/aʊn/in the English etymon.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]countrym(uncountable)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishcountry.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]countrymorn(feminine singularcountryă,masculine pluralcountryi,feminine and neuter pluralcountrye)
- country(music)
Declension
[edit]Declension ofcountry
| 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 | |||
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishcountry.Doubletofcontrada.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]countrym(uncountable)
Usage notes
[edit]According toRoyal Spanish Academy(RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “country”,inDiccionario de la lengua española,Vigésima tercera edición,Real Academia Española,2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]BorrowedfromEnglishcountry.First attested in 1965.
Noun
[edit]countryc(uncountable)
- (music)country,country music
- Synonym:countrymusik
- 1986,Claes Eriksson(lyrics and music), “Truckdriving song”, inMacken[The gas station][4],performed byPer Fritzell:
- Howdy, cowboy! Visa nu, vad har du på din mack? Jag behöver fylla skafferiet på min truck [English]. Tuggummi, så klart, snus och chips, en låda dryck, skulle jag bli glad om jag fick. Jag drar min långtradarsång, min lastbilskörarsång, för jag har sån smak för bilar med flak. Jag drar min truckdriving song [English], tjugofyra meter lång, och jag tackar Gud förcountrynsalla ljud. Och om låten blir för tråkig, ja, då jag tar jag det kallt. Ja, då byter jag tonart och höjer ett halvt. Ja, jag höjer ett halvt.
- Howdy, cowboy! Show me now, what do you have at your gas station? I need to fill the pantry in my truck [English]. Chewing gum, of course,snusand chips [in the US sense], a case of drink, I would be happy if I got. I do [pull] my big rig song, my truck driving song, because I have such taste for cars with a flatbed [platform]. I do my truckdriving song [English], twenty-four meters long, and I thank God for all the soundsof country music( "forthe country music'sall sounds "). And if the song gets too boring, yes, then I stay cool [take it cool]. Yes, then I change the key and raise by a half [step]. Yes, I raise by a half [step].
Declension
[edit]| Declension ofcountry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | country | countryn | — | — |
| Genitive | countrys | countryns | — | — |
Further reading
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- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Vulgar Latin
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- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ʌntɹi
- Rhymes:English/ʌntɹi/2 syllables
- English lemmas
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- Indian English
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Geography
- Basque terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Basque/au̯ntri
- Rhymes:Basque/au̯ntri/2 syllables
- Basque lemmas
- Basque nouns
- Basque terms spelled with Y
- Basque terms spelled with C
- Basque inanimate nouns
- eu:Music
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Italian/awntri
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- Italian lemmas
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