(adv.) 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.
(adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
(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.
(adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
(adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
(adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.
(a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
(a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
(a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
(3) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(4) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(7) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(8) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(9) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(10) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(11) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(12) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(13) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(14) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(15) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
(16) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(17) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(18) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(19) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(20) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
Countryman
Definition:
(n.) An inhabitant or native of a region.
(n.) One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun.
(n.) One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miliband said he had been "right" to raise the past record of MEP Michał Kamiński despite the insistence of Poland's chief rabbi that his countryman was not antisemitic, despite his "problematic" past.
(2) Thomas Countryman, former US acting undersecretary for arms control and international security, commented: “It’s an indication of how rapidly our standards are falling when we’re reasonably pleased that President Trump has not made an obvious error.” Pre-meeting hype had focused on whether Trump would confront Putin over Russia’s interference in the US election.
(3) The resident EBV genome was simultaneously induced to replicate by using a cotransfected expression plasmid for the EBV immediate-early transactivator, Z (J. Countryman, H. Jenson, R. Seibl, H. Wolf, and G. Miller, J. Virol.
(4) The late Peter Porter called his fellow countryman "the custodian of Australia's soul".
(5) Waterford Crystal itself, set up in 1947 by the Czech emigré Karel Bacik, became an astonishing success, pushed along by the design skills of his fellow countryman "Paddy" [Miroslav] Havel .
(6) While Fiorentina’s Juan Cuadrado is not thought to be high on Van Gaal’s list, the Ajax midfielder Daley Blind, is on the manager’s radar, along with countryman Stefan de Vrij, the Feyenoord defender, and Arsenal’s Thomas Vermaelen, though it is not thought any deal for him would currently involve a United player in part-exchange with Arsenal.
(7) Sinclair is now at Villa , Rodwell at Sunderland and their countryman James Milner has left City for Liverpool .
(8) Trump had accepted Putin’s assurances, Countryman said: “It certainly was the minimum that any US president should have done in this situation.
(9) Garcès will take charge of Saturday’s clash between South Africa and New Zealand, with his countryman Romain Poite and Ireland’s John Lacey appointed as assistant referees.
(10) In the 1960s he lived mostly in Europe, especially Paris, where he met and mixed with other writers, from his fellow countryman Octavio Paz to the Cuban Alejo Carpentier and the Argentinian Julio Cortázar.
(11) Scott, a farmer and countryside campaigner, is better known co-presenter of the BBC2 series Clarissa and the Countryman with Clarissa Dickson Wright.
(12) There was even a joke with his countryman, William Shatner, about signs of life on the blue planet below.
(13) You look at the new Mini – the new Mini came out and then there were two or three different engine variants but now there is the Mini convertible, the Mini Countryman, the Mini which is bigger.
(14) I want to enjoy this win but I will fight anyone.” Groves’ previous two losses in world title fights came to countryman Carl Froch.
(15) So he sold his British racing green Speedster and bought the sensible Countryman model, the one with two creaky back doors.
(16) In September, launching the consultation, Paice said: "As a countryman my view is that free shooting would, in most cases, be by far the most effective option."
(17) Micronuclei (MN) were scored according to Countryman's standard, and 2000 interphase was observed in each subject of CVMN frequency.
(18) When the minister for the natural environment and fisheries, Richard Benyon , last week posted a picture on Facebook of himself bravely pulling up a ragwort plant while being watched by a quizzical cow, he probably thought the image of a true countryman being tough on weeds would go down well with the voters.
(19) While Ross could not sue for libel across the Atlantic, his threatened action for libel forced the publisher of the British edition of Microbe Hunters to delete the chapter about Ross and one about David Bruce, Ross's countryman.
(20) But she is not getting the ultimate accolade – granted to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, or her countryman Pope Benedict – of giving a joint address in Westminster Hall.