Definition of country

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Country (adv.) 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..

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Traitress :: Traitress (n.) A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.
Upland :: Upland (n.) The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns..
Village :: Village (n.) A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city..
Discoverer :: Discoverer (n.) One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact..
Triarchy :: Triarchy (n.) Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers..
Inland :: Inland (n.) The interior part of a country.
Longitude :: Longitude (n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74ยก or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich..
Shipping :: Shipping (n.) The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage..
Expatriate :: Expatriate (v. t.) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
Mise :: Mise (n.) A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom..
Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..
Expel :: Expel (v. t.) To drive away from one's country; to banish.
Refugee :: Refugee (n.) Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes..
Embassador :: Embassador (n.) A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities..
Homemade :: Homemade (a.) Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country.
Churl :: Churl (n.) A rustic; a countryman or laborer.
Rurigenous :: Rurigenous (a.) Born in the country.
North :: North (n.) Any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country.
Midland :: Midland (a.) Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants..
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