n. | 1. | A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship. |
| 2. | Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. |
| 3. | The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. |
| 4. | (Law) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. |
| 5. | (Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs. |
a. | 1. | Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city. |
| 2. | Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners. |
| 3. | Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. |