country

Engleski

Alternative forms

• contree, countrey (archaic)
• contrey, countre, countrie (obsolete)
• counthry (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English contre, contree, contreie, from Old French contree, from Vulgar Latin (terra) contrāta (“(land) lying opposite; (land) spread before”), derived from Latinski contra (“against, opposite”). Cognate with Scots kintra.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŭn'tri
  • (UK, US, Canada) MFA^(ključ): /ˈkʌntɹi/, [ˈkʰʌnt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷi], /ˈkʌntɹɪ/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) MFA^(ključ): /ˈkɐntɹi/
• Rime: -ʌntɹi

• Audio (UK)

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• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: coun‧try

Noun

country (plural countries)

1. (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region. [from 13th c.]
   • 2010, David Vann, The Observer, 7 Mar 2010:

     We walk along flat, open country, red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees […].

2. 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. [from 13th c.]
   • 2007, Chris Moss, The Guardian, 17 Feb 2007:

     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.

3. 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. [from 14th c.]
   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 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 jun 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, strana 68:

5. (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. [from 16th c.]
   • Šablon:RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes
   • 2000, Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian, 4 Mar.:

     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.

6. country music. [from 20th c.]

   a country song

   a country singer

   a country festival

7. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.

Usage notes

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 nations 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.

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of country (noun)

• cleft country
• developing country
• high country
• King Country
• member country
• old country
• West Country

 

Derived terms

Terms derived from country (noun)

• countrify
• country and western
• country bumpkin
• country lane
• country mile
• country music
• countryside
• countrywide
• cross-country
• go to the country
• hill country blues
• in-country

 

Descendants

• Nigerian Pidgin: kontri
• Sranan Tongo: kondre
• Tok Pisin: kantri
• ⇒ Kineski: 港腳／港脚 (gǎngjiǎo)
• → Finski: country, kantri
• → Francuski: country
• → Italijanski: country
• → Japanski: カントリー (kantorī)
• → Poljski: country
• → Portugalski: country
• → Rumunski: country
• → Ruski: kántri (kántri)
• → Španski: country
• → Švedski: country

Translations

region of land

See also

• Dodatak:Zemlje sveta

Adjective

country (not comparable)

1. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
   • Šablon:RQ:Churchill Celebrity
2. Of or connected to country music.

Translations

of, from or pertaining to the countryside (adjective)

• Arabic: رِيفِيّ‎ (rīfiyy), نِسْبَة إِلَى الرِّيف‎ (nisba ʾilā r-rīf)
• Armenian: գյուղական (hy) (gyułakan), շինական (hy) (šinakan)
• Breton: diwar ar maez
• Bulgarian: provincialen (bg) (provincialen)
• Catalan: campestre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鄉下的／乡下的 (zh), 乡下的 (zh) (xiāngxià de), 鄉村的／乡村的 (zh), 乡村的 (zh) (xiāngcūn de)

• Dutch: plattelands, boeren-, land-
• Finnish: maalainen (fi), maalais-, maaseutu (fi)
• French: de la campagne, de province, de la contrée, campagnard (fr)
• German: ländlich (de), Land-
• Greek: αγροτικός (el) (agrotikós), εξοχικός (el) (exochikós), επαρχιώτικος (el) (eparchiótikos)
• Hebrew: כפרי‎ m (kafry), כפרית‎ f (kafryt)
• Hungarian: vidéki (hu)
• Indonesian: desa (id)
• Interlingua: rural, campestre
• Italian: di campagna, rurale (it)
• Japanese: 田舎 (ja) (いなか, inaka), 田舎の (ja) (いなかの, inaka no), 田園 (ja) (でんえん, den'en), 地方の (ja) (ちほうの, chihō no)
• Korean: 시골 (ko) (sigol), 시골의 (sigor-ui)
• Latin: rūsticus (la), rūrālis, agrestis (la)
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• Latvian: lauku, lauku-
• Lithuanian: kaimo, kaimiškas
• Macedonian: sélski m (sélski)
• Mongolian: hөdөөniй (hödöönij)
• Norwegian: landsens
• Persian: روستایی‎ (fa) (rustâyi), حاشیه نشین‎ (fa)
• Polish: wiejski (pl)
• Portuguese: rural (pt), campestre (pt), do campo, grosseiro (pt)
• Romanian: rural (ro), țara (ro)
• Russian: derevénskiй (ru) (derevénskij), sélьskiй (ru) (sélʹskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: dùthchail, tìreil
• Slovak: dedinský, vidiecky
• Slovene: podeželski, vaški (sl)
• Spanish: de campo (es), campesino (es), campestre (es), de provincia (es), provinciano (es)
• Swahili: -a kimashamba
• Swedish: land-, lands-
• Thai: ทางชนบท (thaang chohn bòht)
• Turkish: kırsal (tr)
• Yiddish: דאָרפֿיש‎ (dorfish)
• Zazaki: rıstan c

References

• country at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Šablon:R:Keywords 21st
• "country" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 81.
• country in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• kantri

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing od Engleski country.

Noun

country

1. country music

Declension

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	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		countrytta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of country (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	countryni	countrymme
2nd person	countrysi	countrynne
3rd person	countrynsa

Synonyms

• countrymusiikki
• kantrimusiikki

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Francuski

Etymology

From Engleski. Dubleti of contrée.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /kœ̃.tʁi/

Noun

country m (uncountable)

1. country music

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Italijanski

Etymology

From Engleski.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /ˈkawn.tri/, (careful style) /ˈkan.tri/
• Rime: -awntri, (careful style) -antri

Noun

country m (plural #)

1. (music) country music

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Poljski

Etymology

Pozajmljeno od Engleski country music.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /ˈkan.trɨ/
• Rime: -antrɨ
• Syllabification: coun‧try

Noun

country n (indeclinable)

1. country, country music

Derived terms

adjectives

• countrowy
• country'owy

 

Further reading

• country in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• country in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portugalski

Etymology

Borrowed from Engleski country.

The pronunciation reflects the incorrect belief that the <oun> represents /aʊn/ in the English etymon.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) MFA^(ključ): /ˈkaw̃.tɾi/

Noun

country m (uncountable)

1. country music

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Rumunski

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing od Engleski country.

Adjective

1. country Galicijski

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Španski

Etymology

Engleski. Dubleti of contrada.

Pronunciation

MFA^(ključ): /ˈkantɾi/, [ˈkãn̪t̪ɾi]

Noun

country m (uncountable)

1. country music

Further reading

• “country” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Švedski

Etymology

From Engleski

Noun

country c (uncountable)

1. country music