Country
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.
Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
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.
A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
The rock through which a vein runs.
Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
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Country Quotations
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
Country Translations
country in Danish is land
country in Dutch is platteland, open veld
country in Finnish is maa
country in German is Gegend, Land, Land
country in Italian is terreno, campagna
country in Latin is terra, humus, solum
country in Norwegian is land
country in Swedish is bygd, land
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