Definition of country

• 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.