OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 595

country

/ˈkʌntɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
agreste • campero • campesino • campestre • campeño • de campo • de provincia • provinciano
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.
When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalize…
Phrases
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📚 noun • entry_id 594

country

/ˈkʌntɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
país
The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
But that expropriation of the Third World, [that] has been going on for 400 years, brings us to another revelation: namely, that the Third World is not poor. You don't go to poor c…
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking y…
campaña • campiña • campo • provincia
A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in the country is the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.
I was borne and brought up in the Countrie, and amidst husbandry[…].
ranchera
Ellipsis of country music.
a country singer
a country song