(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.
Plage
Definition:
(n.) A region; country.
Example Sentences:
(1) The long, curving, sandy Plage des Chevrets is one of the prettiest on Brittany's Emerald Coast.
(2) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(3) • enjoythecoast.it Plage de Bon Secours, Saint-Malo, France Facebook Twitter Pinterest On calm days, there is a striking contrast between the mirror-like surface of Saint-Malo sea pool and the ruffled sea beyond, between the order of its geometric walls and the random rocky outcrops behind them.
(4) Le Club Farret Vias Plage is on its own exclusive-use beach and with unfancy but functional units clustered in themed areas (pirate has pool, a waterfall and rope bridges; Pacific has a tiki vibe with straw roofs on the cabins).
(5) The first hotel to open in the Landes region is a converted manor house in Mimizan Plage.
(6) • +33 2 98 51 94 94, trimen.fr , hoteldubac.fr , Villa Tri Men doubles from €120 room only, Hotel du Bac from €90 Les Mouettes, Larmor-Plage The restaurant at Les Mouettes comes highly recommended.
(7) While this section of the Seine closes every summer to host the Paris Plages – in which temporary artificial beaches are created along the right bank of the river – this time the expressway has not been reopened.
(8) Thus a cytological study of selectively isolated antigen recognizing cells which form rosettes and antibody producing cells which form hemolytic plages has been performed during oxazolone and lipopolysaccharide stimulations.
(9) South-west of Bordeaux, the Côte d’Argent begins at Mimizan Plage, where a river splits the beach in two.
(10) Our data support the origin of lambda rev plages by recombination between lambda and the Rac prophage following excision of the Rac prophage from the E. coli chromosome.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Seine-side holiday: Paris Plages lasts for four weeks during the summer.
(12) Daytrippers stay on Mimizan Plage Sud for surfing, or the riverbank Plage du Courant for swimming.
(13) Before it closed earlier this year for the annual Paris Plage city beach project, 43,000 cars a day passed over the stretch of road.
(14) The campsite has a bar with music nights and a seafood restaurant overlooking the beach, but La Trinité and Carnac-Plage have plenty more family-friendly seafood restaurants and creperies.
(15) This white art deco hotel wouldn't look out of place on Miami's South Beach, but it's on the far less crowded Plage de Locqueltas on Brittany's Morbihan coast.
(16) Huts from €60 a night Le Club Farret Vias Plage, near Béziers, Languedoc Yelloh!
(17) It's a pricey place to eat, though: you may prefer to take the wooden pathway east across the dunes and along the sea wall to Larmor-Plage, a resort with a popular Sunday market and a beachfront promenade of affordable seafood restaurants.
(18) She said the plan involved handing over the right bank of the Seine to pedestrians after the annual Paris Plage festival.
(19) Nor is there the playfulness of Paris Plage , the annual conversion of the banks of the Seine into a beach, or the floating swimming pool that was installed in Copenhagen.
(20) The next entry point is a shady picnic area at Plage de Lespécier, where a plank of wood stuck in the sand announces there’s wifi available.