COUNTRY

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : land , nation

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : body politic , commonwealth , land , nation , res publica , state

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : area

• (noun) the territory occupied by a nation

  "he returned to the land of his birth", "he visited several European countries"

  synonyms : land , state

• (noun) an area outside of cities and towns

  "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"

  synonyms : rural area

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Mnemonics for country

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