country

IPA: kˈʌntri

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.
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.
(uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
(chiefly Britain) An area of land; a district, region.
(Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
Ellipsis of country music. [(music) A style of popular music that originated in the folk music of the rural population of the southern and western United States and characterized by string-band instruments and simple melodies.]

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.

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