country
noun
[ ˈkʌntri ]
• a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.
• "the country's increasingly precarious economic position"
Similar:
state,
nation,
sovereign state,
kingdom,
realm,
territory,
province,
principality,
palatinate,
duchy,
empire,
commonwealth,
homeland,
native land,
native soil,
fatherland,
motherland,
mother country,
country of origin,
birthplace,
the land of one's birth,
the land of one's fathers,
the old country,
one's roots,
one's home,
• districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital.
• "the airfield is right out in the country"
Similar:
countryside,
green belt,
great outdoors,
provinces,
backwoods,
wilds,
wilderness,
hinterland,
a rural area,
a rural district,
farmland,
agricultural land,
outback,
bush,
back country,
backblocks,
booay,
backveld,
platteland,
sticks,
back of beyond,
middle of nowhere,
boondocks,
boonies,
tall timbers,
hicksville,
Woop Woop,
beyond the black stump,
• an area or region with regard to its physical features.
• "a tract of wild country"
• short for country music.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French cuntree, from medieval Latin contrata (terra) ‘(land) lying opposite’, from Latin contra ‘against, opposite’.
