| Main Entry: |
country |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
rural, pastoral |
Synonyms: |
Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic,
bucolic, campestral, countrified, georgic, homey, out-country, outland,
provincial,
rustic, uncultured, unpolished,
unrefined,
unsophisticated
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| Notes: |
country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person'
a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolitan, urban
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