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country 音标拼音: [k'ʌntri] n. 国家,乡村,山地,故乡
a. 乡下的,农村的
n. DOS命令:安装国际字符集 国家,乡村,山地,故乡乡下的,农村的 DOS命令:安装国际字元集 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" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { nation}, { land}, { country}] 4: an area outside of cities and towns; " his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { area}, { country}] Country \ Coun" try\ ( k? n" tr?), n.; pl. { Countries} (- tr? z). [ F. contr[' e] e, LL. contrata, fr. L. contra over against, on the opposite side. Cf. { Counter}, adv., { Contra}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. -- Gen. xxxxii. 9. [ 1913 Webster] I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. -- Stirling. [ 1913 Webster] Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. [ 1913 Webster] As they walked, on their way into the country. -- Mark xvi. 12 ( Rev. Ver. ). [ 1913 Webster] God made the covatry, and man made the town. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. 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. [ 1913 Webster] All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Law) ( a) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. ( b) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs. [ 1913 Webster] { Conclusion to the country}. See under { Conclusion}. { To put one' s self upon the country}, or { To throw one' s self upon the country}, to appeal to one' s constituents; to stand trial before a jury. [ 1913 Webster]
Country \ Coun" try\, a. 1. Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one' s own country. [ 1913 Webster] She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language. -- 2 Macc. vii. 27. [ 1913 Webster] 115 Moby Thesaurus words for " country": Arcadian, acres, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, area, belt, blue- ribbon jury, boondocks, bucolic, campestral, clay, clod, confines, continental shelf, corridor, countrified, countryside, crust, department, dirt, district, division, dry land, dust, earth, environs, farm, fatherland, freehold, glebe, grand jury, grassland, ground, heartland, hinterland, home, homeland, hung jury, inquest, jury, jury list, jury of inquest, jury of matrons, jury panel, land, landholdings, lithosphere, lowland, marginal land, marl, milieu, mold, mother country, motherland, mountains, nation, native land, neighborhood, offshore rights, outback, outland, panel, part, parts, pastoral, petit jury, place, police jury, power, precincts, premises, provinces, provincial, purlieus, quarter, real estate, real property, realm, region, regolith, rural, rustic, salient, section, sessions, sod, soil, space, special jury, state, sticks, subaerial deposit, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, three- mile limit, topsoil, trial jury, twelve- mile limit, upland, venire, vicinage, vicinity, wilderness, woodland, woods, zone |
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