country
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- contree, countrey (archaic)
- contrey, countre, countrie, counterie (obsolete)
- counthry (pronunciation spelling)
- cuntry (eye dialect, derogatory)
Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta
Middle English contre
English country
Inherited from Middle English contre,[1] borrowed from Old French contree, from Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta (“facing land”), from Latin contrā (“against”) + -āta (noun-forming suffix). Cognate with Scots kintra. Unrelated to county. Displaced native English land in some of its senses.
From around 1300 as "area surrounding a walled city or town; the open country." By early 16th century the sense was applied mostly to rural areas, as opposed to towns and cities.[1]
Compare typologically Russian страна́ (straná), сторона́ (storoná).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: kŭn'tri
- (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkʌntɹi/, [ˈkʰʌnt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷi]
- (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ˈkʌntɹɪj/
- (Northern England, Midlands) IPA(key): /ˈkʊntɹi/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈkʌntɾe/, /-tɾɪ/, /-tɾi/
- (Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkʌntɾi/
- (Australia, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɐntɹi/
- (South Asia) IPA(key): /ˈkən.ʈɾi/, [ˈkɜn.t̺riˑ]
- Rhymes: -ʌntɹi
- (common for ESL speakers, proscribed) enPR: koun'tri, IPA(key): /ˈkaʊntɹi/
- Rhymes: -aʊntɹi
- Hyphenation: coun‧try
Noun
[edit]country (countable and uncountable, plural countries)
- The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc. [from 14th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country
- Hyponyms: LMIC, HIC, developing country, developed country, member country, mini-country, old country; see also Thesaurus:country
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
- By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
- 1986 April 15, Michael Parenti, 02:53 from the start, in U.S. interventionism, the Third World, and the USSR[1], Boulder, Colorado:
- But that expropriation of the Third World, [that] has been going on for 400 years, brings us to another revelation: namely, that the Third World is not poor. You don't go to poor countries to make money. There are very few poor countries in this world. Most countries are rich: the Philippines are rich, Brazil is rich, Mexico is rich, Chile is rich; only the people are poor. But there's billions to be made there, to be carved out, and to be taken; there's been billions for 400 years! The Capitalist European and North American powers have carved out and taken the timber, the flax, the hemp, the cocoa, the rum, the tin, the copper, the iron, the rubber, the bauxite, the slaves, and the cheap labour. They have taken out of these countries. These countries are not underdeveloped; they're overexploited!
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 3:
- It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.
- 2010, The Economist, 3 Feb 2011:
- These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist[2], volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 11 March 2023, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
- 2024 July 4, Lilit Marcus, “This country has a national happiness index. But what is it really like to live there?”, in CNN[3], archived from the original on 24 July 2024:
- Most foreigners who have heard of Bhutan know two things: the country charges international visitors a $100/day sustainable development fee (aka tourist tax), and that it is the birthplace of the Gross National Happiness Index, a system intended to look after the well-being of citizens and the environment.
- A large area regarded as distinct from other areas, e.g. because it is inhabited by a specific group of people
- (especially UK, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district. [from 13th c.]
- 2010 March 7, David Vann, The Observer:
- We walk along flat, open country, red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees […].
- (uncountable, countable) An area of land of indefinite extent or of more or less definite extent in relation to human occupation, especially characterized by its particular physical features, or its suitability for a particular activity or connected with its population (by race, dialect, culture, etc.) or a person, especially a writer, or their works.
- Hyponyms: backcountry, high country, north country, upcountry
- Thomas Hardy country
- Hikers love the wild country that lies northwest of this river confluence.
- Since this was rebel country, checkpoints were set up along the road.
- 2007 February 17, Chris Moss, The Guardian:
- This is condor country – the only region this far east where you can see the magnificent vulture – and a small national park straddling the passes, El Condorito, is a good stopover for walkers and birders.
- (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- I was borne and brought up in the Countrie, and amidst husbandry […].
- 1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders:
- Joyce Barnaby: You don't kill someone because they made you redundant.
DCI Tom Barnaby: Not in the town, dear, but this is the country. And, in the country, anything goes.
- 2000 March 4, Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian:
- I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in the country is the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.
- 2006 May, James B. Weld, Difficulties in Learning English as a Second or Foreign Language[4], Regis University, page 37:
- She grew up in Chang-hua, a city in central Taiwan with a decidedly country flavor.
- I grew up in the country with a 12-gauge shotgun.
- The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public. [from ca. 1300]
- a scandal that rocked the country
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 1, sourced from Open Source Shakespeare, line 2344:
- For all the country, in a general voice,
Cried hate upon him.
- (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
- 1842 February 16, The Inquirer, Perth, page 5, column 2:
- "Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear.
- 1945 September 27, The Chronicle, Adelaide, page 35, column 4:
- "Yewi," he said, "me bin longa Fanny Bay gaol five years." On my asking why they put him in gaol he replied. "Australia your country, ain't it?" I replied, "Yes, him my country all right." "Well," he then said, "this my country here. Brinken country other side of the river ain't it?" "That's right," said I. "Well," said Jack, "supposem Japanese come longa this country and you killem, you good man, but suppose Brinken come longa my country here, and I kill him, police man put me longa Fanny Bay for five years. That is the law."
- 2008 July 23, The Torres News, page 5, column 1:
- "It demonstrates that having Indigenous people on country managing their lands, delivering environmental benefits for all Australians is an important asset for the national good."
- 2015 March 11, Calla Wahlquist, “Of three remote communities here, why are only the two Aboriginal ones under threat?”, in The Guardian[5], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2022:
- Milgin says living on country, with elders, makes Aboriginal people "strong". That's backed up by a 2011 report on Aboriginal homelands by Amnesty International that found that living on homelands was connected to better health outcomes and drug rehabilitation.
- 2021 July 8, The Air Force News, page 16, column 2:
- What country do you live/work on? I work on Yuggera Yuggarapul country and I'm from Darwin, Larrakia country.
- Ellipsis of country music. [from 20th c.]
- a country song
- a country singer
- a country festival
- (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
- You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.
- (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
- Coordinate terms: gangue, overburden
Usage notes
[edit]The geographical sense of "country" usually refers to a sovereign state, that is, a nation with no administrative dependence on another one, which is the definition adopted in most world maps. In a broader sense, however, "country" may also refer to polities, or their territories, with some degree of autonomy and cultural identity but still under the sovereignty of another state. Examples of the latter include Scotland, Tibet, Abkhazia, and Greenland. Such usage may be interpreted as supporting secessionism of these polities by others.
Derived terms
[edit]- accession country
- across country
- alt-country
- alternative country
- another country heard from
- anticountry
- a prophet has no honor in his own country
- a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
- back country
- backcountry
- Black Country
- bro-country, bro country
- coal country
- Constable country
- constituent country
- cottage country
- countrification
- countrify
- country & western, country and western, country-and-western
- countryball
- country beam
- country beer
- country blues, country-blues
- country bookie
- country box
- country bread
- country bumpkin
- country captain
- country club
- country code
- country cousin
- country damage
- country-damaged
- country dance, country-dance
- country dancing
- country dweller
- countryfication
- country fig
- countryfolk
- country-fried
- country-fried steak
- countryful
- country gentleman
- country gravy
- country ham
- countryhood
- country house
- countryhuman
- countryish
- country Joan
- country lane
- countryless
- countrylike
- countrymade
- countryman
- countrymate
- country merchant
- country mile
- country mouse
- country music
- country of origin
- country of provenance
- country park
- countryperson
- country pop
- country punk
- country rap
- country risk
- country road
- country rock
- country-rock
- country sausage
- country seat
- countryship
- country ship
- country-side
- country side
- countryside
- country stop
- country store
- country team
- countryward
- countrywards
- countrywear
- country-western
- country-western music
- countrywide
- country wife
- country wine
- countrywoman
- cross-country
- cross country
- cross-country ski
- cross-country skier
- cross country skiing
- cross-country skiing
- cuntry
- developed country
- Elvis country
- flyover country
- foreign country
- free country
- fresh country egg
- fresh country eggs
- frontcountry
- go back to your country
- go country
- God's country
- God's own country
- go to the country
- Hill Country
- hill country blues
- home country
- host country
- in country
- in-country
- intercountry
- intracountry
- Irish country hat
- it's a free country
- line of country
- live off the country
- Lowcountry
- microcountry
- mini-independent country
- model country
- mother country
- multicountry
- neighbouring country
- neotraditional country
- new country project
- noncountry
- Nordic country
- north country
- old-time country
- outlaw country
- outside country
- pure country
- safe third country
- socialism in one country
- step-country
- summer country
- third country
- tiger country
- transcountry
- Trump country
- up the country people
- winter country
- X-country
Descendants
[edit]- Jamaican Creole: konchri
- Krio: kɔntri
- Nigerian Pidgin: kontri
- Sranan Tongo: kondre
- Tok Pisin: kantri
- → Arabic: كَانْتْرِي (kāntrī)
- ⇒ Chinese: 港腳 / 港脚 (gǎngjiǎo)
- → Dutch: country
- → Finnish: country, kantri
- → French: country
- → Hindi: कंट्री (kaṇṭrī)
- → Icelandic: kántrí
- → Italian: country
- → Japanese: カントリー (kantorī)
- → Korean: 컨트리 (keonteuri)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: køntri
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: køntri
- → Polish: country
- → Portuguese: country
- → Romanian: country
- → Russian: ка́нтри (kántri)
- → Kazakh: кантри (kantrıy)
- → Spanish: country
- → Swedish: country
- → Danish: country
- → Ukrainian: ка́нтрі (kántri)
- → Urdu: کَنْٹْری (kanṭrī)
Translations
[edit]region of land
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nation state
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the country, rural area, as opposed to the town or city
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country music
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Translations to be checked
See also
[edit]Adjective
[edit]country (comparative countrier or more country, superlative countriest or most country)
- From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.
- Things around here are just a little more country than what he's used to.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
- Of or connected to country music.
- They're mainly a hard rock band, but their new album sounds kinda country to me.
- (India) Originating in India rather than being imported from abroad.
- Synonym: native
- 1872, Silk in India, page 16:
- We have seen that the Company manufactured silk stuffs at three of its Residencies, but from country-wound silk.
- 1884, Journal of the United Service Institution of India, page 185:
- A reference to the Annual Administration Reports of the Department of Horse-breeding Operations […] will allow of the opinion being arrived at, that the breed of country horses under the present regime is steadily improving.
- 1937, Brigadier-General H. A. Young, The East India Company’s Arsenals & Manufactories:
- Country harness costs nearly as much, lasts half the time, and is in every respect inferior. It is understood that the only reason is that the Court desires to improve and encourage Indian manufactures.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of, from or pertaining to the countryside (adjective)
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References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “country (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- country in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- Raymond Williams (1983), “Country”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 81.
- “country” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman: “an area of land that is suitable for a particular activity, has particular features, or is connected with a particular person or people”.
- “country”, in Oxford Languages, Oxford University Press: “an area or region with regard to its physical features. [...] a region associated with a particular person, especially a writer, or with a particular work.”
- “country, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “country, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC: “The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public.”
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “country”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Further reading
[edit]- “country”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Basque
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]country inan
Declension
[edit]| indefinite | singular | |
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| absolutive | country | countrya |
| ergative | — | countryak |
| dative | — | countryari |
| genitive | — | countryaren |
| comitative | — | countryarekin |
| causative | — | countryarengatik |
| benefactive | — | countryarentzat |
| instrumental | countryz | countryaz |
| inessive | — | countryan |
| locative | — | countryko |
| allative | — | countryra |
| terminative | — | countryraino |
| directive | — | countryrantz |
| destinative | — | countryrako |
| ablative | — | countrytik |
| partitive | countryrik | — |
| prolative | countrytzat | — |
1. Optionally, case suffixes can be separated from the root with a hyphen.
Further reading
[edit]- “country”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English country. First attested in 1969.
Noun
[edit]country c (singular definite countryen, not used in plural form)
- (music) country, country music
- Synonyms: countrymusik, country og western
Declension
[edit]| common gender |
singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | country | countryen |
| genitive | countrys | countryens |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “country” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English country.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]country m (uncountable, no diminutive)
- country music
- Synonym: countrymuziek
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “country”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English country.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]country
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of country (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | country | — | |
| genitive | countryn | — | |
| partitive | countrya | — | |
| illative | countryyn | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | country | — | |
| accusative | nom. | country | — |
| gen. | countryn | ||
| genitive | countryn | — | |
| partitive | countrya | — | |
| inessive | countryssa | — | |
| elative | countrysta | — | |
| illative | countryyn | — | |
| adessive | countrylla | — | |
| ablative | countrylta | — | |
| allative | countrylle | — | |
| essive | countryna | — | |
| translative | countryksi | — | |
| abessive | countrytta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “country”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English. Doublet of contrée.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]country m (uncountable)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English country.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]country m (invariable)
References
[edit]- ^ “country” in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Borrowed from English country.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]country n (indeclinable)
Derived terms
[edit]adjectives
Further reading
[edit]- “country”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[7] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “country”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[8] (in Polish)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English country. The pronunciation reflects the incorrect belief that the ⟨oun⟩ represents /aʊn/ in the English etymon.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]country m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “country”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “country”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- кантри (cantri) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta
Middle English contre
Romanian country
Unadapted borrowing from English country.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]country m or n (feminine singular countryă, masculine plural countryi, feminine/neuter plural countrye)
- country (music)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||||
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | country | countryă | countryi | countrye | ||
| definite | countryul | countrya | countryii | countryele | |||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | country | countrye | countryi | countrye | ||
| definite | countryului | countryei | countryilor | countryelor | |||
Further reading
[edit]- “country”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta
Middle English contre
Spanish country
Unadapted borrowing from English country. Doublet of contrada.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkantɾi/ [ˈkãn̪.t̪ɾi], /ˈkontɾi/ [ˈkõn̪.t̪ɾi]
- IPA(key): /ˈkowntɾi/ [ˈkown̪.t̪ɾi], /kownˈtɾi/ [kown̪ˈt̪ɾi]
- Syllabification: coun‧try
Noun
[edit]country m (uncountable)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “country”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English country. First attested in 1965.
Noun
[edit]country c (uncountable)
- (music) country, country music
- Synonym: countrymusik
- 1986, Claes Eriksson, “Truckdriving song”, in Macken [The gas station][9], performed by Per Fritzell:
- Howdy, cowboy! Visa nu, vad har du på din mack? Jag behöver fylla skafferiet på min truck [English]. Tuggummi, så klart, snus och chips, en låda dryck, skulle jag bli glad om jag fick. Jag drar min långtradarsång, min lastbilskörarsång, för jag har sån smak för bilar med flak. Jag drar min truckdriving song [English], tjugofyra meter lång, och jag tackar Gud för countryns alla ljud. Och om låten blir för tråkig, ja, då jag tar jag det kallt. Ja, då byter jag tonart och höjer ett halvt. Ja, jag höjer ett halvt.
- Howdy, cowboy! Show me now, what do you have at your gas station? I need to fill the pantry in my truck [English]. Chewing gum, of course, snus and chips [in the US sense], a case of drink, I would be happy if I got. I do [pull] my big rig song, my truck driving song, because I have such taste for cars with a flatbed [platform]. I do my truckdriving song [English], twenty-four meters long, and I thank God for all the sounds of country music ("for the country music's all sounds"). And if the song gets too boring, yes, then I stay cool [take it cool]. Yes, then I change the key and raise by a half [step]. Yes, I raise by a half [step].
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | country | countrys |
| definite | countryn | countryns | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
Further reading
[edit]- “country”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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