country (
http://definr.com/country)
adj 1: rough and uncouth; "a country boy" [syn:
country(a),
country-bred]
2: typical of the country; "country-style sausage"; "country
music" [syn:
country-style,
country(a)]
3: (of music) characteristic of rural life [syn:
country(a),
folk(a),
hillbilly,
western(a)]
n 1: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land
of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
[syn:
state,
land]
2: a politically organized body of people under a single
government; "the state has elected a new president";
"African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's
capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an
industrialized land" [syn:
state,
nation,
land,
commonwealth,
res publica,
body politic]
3: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement
that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced
to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn:
nation,
land,
a people]
4: an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated
the slower pace of life in the country" [syn:
rural area]
[ant:
urban area]
5: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary
(usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by
its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous
area"; "Bible country" [syn:
area]