County vs. Country
Countynoun
(historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
Countrynoun
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
Countynoun
An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Countrynoun
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
Countynoun
A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
‘traditional county’;
Countrynoun
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
Countynoun
A jail operated by a county government.
Countrynoun
(usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
Countyadjective
Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.
Countrynoun
ellipsis of country music
Countynoun
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
Countrynoun
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
Countynoun
A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; - called also a shire. See Shire.
‘Every county, every town, every family, was in agitation.’;
Countrynoun
The female genitalia, especially the vagina.
Countynoun
A count; an earl or lord.
Countryadjective
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Countynoun
a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government;
‘the county has a population of 12,345 people’;
Countryadjective
Of or connected to country music.
Countynoun
the largest administrative district within a state;
‘the county plans to build a new road’;
Countrynoun
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.
‘Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred.’; ‘I might have learned this by my last exile,that change of countries cannot change my state.’; ‘Many a famous realmAnd country, whereof here needs no account’;
County
A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French conté or cunté denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount.
Countrynoun
Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
‘As they walked, on their way into the country.’; ‘God made the covatry, and man made the town.’; ‘Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country.’;
Countrynoun
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.
‘All the country in a general voiceCried hate upon him.’;
Countrynoun
A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
Countrynoun
The rock through which a vein runs.
Countryadjective
Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
Countryadjective
Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
Countryadjective
Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
‘She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language.’;
Countrynoun
the territory occupied by a nation;
‘he returned to the land of his birth’; ‘he visited several European countries’;
Countrynoun
a politically organized body of people under a single government;
‘the state has elected a new president’; ‘African nations’; ‘students who had come to the nation's capitol’; ‘the country's largest manufacturer’; ‘an industrialized land’;
Countrynoun
the people who live in a nation or country;
‘a statement that sums up the nation's mood’; ‘the news was announced to the nation’; ‘the whole country worshipped him’;
Countrynoun
an area outside of cities and towns;
‘his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country’;
Countrynoun
a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);
‘it was a mountainous area’; ‘Bible country’;
Countrynoun
a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory
‘the country's increasingly precarious economic position’; ‘Spain, Italy, and other European countries’;
Countrynoun
the people of a nation
‘the whole country took to the streets’;
Countrynoun
districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital
‘a country lane’; ‘the airfield is right out in the country’;
Countrynoun
an area or region with regard to its physical features
‘a tract of wild country’;
Countrynoun
a region associated with a particular person, work, or television programme
‘an old mansion in Stevenson's ‘Kidnapped’ country’;
Countrynoun
short for country music
Country
A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation).
