country
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
- 2.
(British, countable, especially, uncountable)(especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
- 3.
(uncountable)(uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public.
- 5.
(Australia, capitalized, countable, uncountable, usually)(Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
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(abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of country music.
a country song
a country singer
a country festival
- 7.
(countable, informal, uncountable)The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy
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(countable, uncountable)(mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.
Things around here are just a little more country than what he's used to.
- 2.
Of or connected to country music.
They're mainly a hard rock band, but their new album sounds kinda country to me.
- 3.
(India)Originating in India rather than being imported from abroad.
Đồng nghĩa: native
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Cognate with kintra. Unrelated to county. Displaced native land in some of its senses.