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Meaning of country

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  country
      n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single
           government; "the state has elected a new president";
           "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's
           capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an
           industrialized land" [syn: {state}, {nation}, {country},
           {land}, {commonwealth}, {res publica}, {body politic}]
      2: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land
         of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn:
         {country}, {state}, {land}]
      3: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that
         sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the
         nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: {nation},
         {land}, {country}]
      4: an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated
         the slower pace of life in the country" [syn: {country},
         {rural area}] [ant: {populated area}, {urban area}]
      5: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary
         (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its
         people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area";
         "Bible country" [syn: {area}, {country}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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