| Main Entry: | countryside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | non-city environment |
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back roads, boonies, country, environment, land, landscape, non-urban area, scenery, setting, sticks, surroundings, terrain |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
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back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
| 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 |
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city, metropolis, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | land |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth's surface; ownable property |
Synonyms: |
acreage, acres, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, extent, farming, farmland, field, ground, grounds, holding, home, homeland, loam, mainland, manor, nation, old sod, parcel, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, quinta, ranch, real estate, realty, region, shore, sod, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tillage, tract |
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sea, sky |
| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth, creation |
Synonyms: |
cosmos, country, countryside, environment, forest, generation, landscape, macrocosm, megacosm, natural history, outdoors, scenery, seascape, setting, universe, view, world |
| Main Entry: | outdoors |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | open air; nature |
Synonyms: |
bucolic surroundings, country, countryside, environment, fresh air, garden, green earth, hill, mountain, open, out-of-doors, patio, without, woods, yard |
Antonyms: |
indoors |
| Main Entry: | suburb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood outside of but reliant on nearby large city |
Synonyms: |
bedroom community, burb, country, countryside, environs, fringe, hamlet, hinterland, outlying area, outpost, outskirts, precinct, purlieu, residential area, slub, suburbia, village |
Antonyms: |
center, metropolis |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
artless, characteristic, consistent with nature, constitutional, created, essential, from nature, genuine, indigenous, ingenuous, intrinsic, legitimate, lifelike, native, normal, ontological, original, real, regular, simple, spontaneous, true, unregenerate
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| Concept: | Land. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; specific fluids |
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-nouns
land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma., continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta; tongue of land, neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory (projection); highland (height)., coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium , alluvion; anicon., soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag., acres; real estate (property); landsman.
-verbs
land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land; come ashore, go ashore, debark.
-adjectives
earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian; alluvial; terrene (world); landed, predial, territorial; geophilous; repicolous.
-adverbs
ashore; on shore, on land.
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