country
/ˈkʌntɹi/ adjective C2- From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it. · Things around here are just a little more country than what he's used to.
- Of or connected to country music. · They're mainly a hard rock band, but their new album sounds kinda country to me.
- Originating in India rather than being imported from abroad.
Comparative countrier · Superlative countriest
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The two little country girls were rather abashed by the splendor of the parlor where Miss Barry left them when she went to see about dinner.
The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the “country bumpkins” and “rustic belles” in the audience, languidly anticipating “such fun” from the displays of local talent on the program.
The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat.
The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions: their minds were more vacant than their sisters’, and when nothing better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and, however bare of news the country in general might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt.
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