country

1. (n) The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc. 2. (n) The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public. 3. (n) (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district. 4. (n) (uncountable, countable) An area of land of indefinite extent or of more or less definite extent in relation to human occupation, especially characterized by its particular physical features, or its suitability for a particular activity or connected with its population (by race, dialect, culture, etc.) or a person, especially a writer, or their works. 5. (n) (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. 6. (adj) From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it. 7. (adj) Of or connected to country music. 8. (n) (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values. 9. (n) (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways. 10. (n) (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs. 11. (adj) (India) Originating in India rather than being imported from abroad. 12. (n) Ellipsis of country music. [(music) A style of popular music that originated in the folk music of the rural population of the southern and western United States and characterized by string-band instruments and simple melodies.]