Country vs. Nation
Countrynoun
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
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.
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.
Countrynoun
(usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
Countrynoun
ellipsis of country music
Countrynoun
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
Countrynoun
The female genitalia, especially the vagina.
Countryadjective
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Countryadjective
Of or connected to country music.
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.
Countrynoun
Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
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.
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.
Countrynoun
the territory occupied by a nation;
Countrynoun
a politically organized body of people under a single government;
Countrynoun
the people who live in a nation or country;
Countrynoun
an area outside of cities and towns;
Countrynoun
a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);
Countrynoun
a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory
Countrynoun
the people of a nation
Countrynoun
districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital
Countrynoun
an area or region with regard to its physical features
Countrynoun
a region associated with a particular person, work, or television programme
Countrynoun
short for country music
Country
A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation).
Nationnoun
A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
Nationnoun
A sovereign state.
Nationnoun
An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity. t
Nationnoun
(obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
Nationnoun
(rare) Damnation.
Nationadverb
Extremely, very.
Nationnoun
A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
Nationnoun
The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
Nationnoun
Family; lineage.
Nationnoun
One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
Nationnoun
A great number; a great deal; - by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
Nationnoun
a politically organized body of people under a single government;
Nationnoun
the people who live in a nation or country;
Nationnoun
a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes);
Nationnoun
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
Nation
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a common language, history, ethnicity, a common culture and, in many cases, a shared territory. A nation is a collective identity of people.
