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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Country \Coun"try\, adjective
1. Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
2. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
3. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language. --2 Macc. vii. 27.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Country \Coun"try\ (k?n"tr?), noun; pl. {Countries} (-tr?z). [F. contr['e]e, LL. contrata, fr. L. contra over against, on the opposite side. Cf. {Counter}, adverb, {Contra}.]
1. A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. --Gen. xxxxii. 9.
I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. --Stirling.
Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account --Milton.
2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
As they walked, on their way into the country. --Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ).
God made the covatry, and man made the town. --Cowper.
Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. --Macaulay.
3. The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. --Shak.
4. (Law) (a) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. (b) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
5. (Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs.
{Conclusion to the country}. See under {Conclusion}.
{To put one's self upon the country}, or {To throw one's self upon the country}, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
country
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "country": Arcadian, acres, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, area, belt, blue-ribbon jury, boondocks, bucolic, campestral, clay, clod, confines, continental shelf, corridor, countrified, countryside, crust, department, dirt, district, division, dry land, dust, earth, environs, farm, fatherland, freehold, glebe, grand jury, grassland, ground, heartland, hinterland, home, homeland, hung jury, inquest, jury, jury list, jury of inquest, jury of matrons, jury panel, land, landholdings, lithosphere, lowland, marginal land, marl, milieu, mold, mother country, motherland, mountains, nation, native land, neighborhood, offshore rights, outback, outland, panel, part, parts, pastoral, petit jury, place, police jury, power, precincts, premises, provinces, provincial, purlieus, quarter, real estate, real property, realm, region, regolith, rural, rustic, salient, section, sessions, sod, soil, space, special jury, state, sticks, subaerial deposit, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, three-mile limit, topsoil, trial jury, twelve-mile limit, upland, venire, vicinage, vicinity, wilderness, woodland, woods, zone
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