an area of land that has or used to have its own government and laws

any area outside towns and cities, with fields, woods, farms, etc.

We spent a pleasant day in the country.

The house is at the end of a narrow country lane.

an area of land, especially with particular physical features, suitable for a particular purpose or connected with a particular person or people

The town is surrounded by miles and miles of open country.

Further south is more rural, predominantly farming country.

the people of a country; the nation as a whole

They have the support of most of the country.

The rich benefited from the reforms, not the country as a whole.

The whole country is depending on you.

a type of popular music in the style of the traditional music of the southern US, with singing and dance tunes played on violin, guitar and banjo

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