country

adj//kəɳʈɾi//

land-, lands-, land, landsbygd, landsort, landet, country

  1. From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.

  2. The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc. [from 14th c.]

  3. (especially, _, Britain, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district. [from 13th c.]

  4. (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.

  5. (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. [from 16th c.]

  6. Ellipsis of country music. [from 20th c.]

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