Translate country | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of country
noun (plural countries)
1a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory:the country’s increasingly precarious economic position (
the country)
the people of a nation:the whole country took to the streets
2 (often
the country)
districts and small settlements outside large towns, cities, or the capital:the airfield is right out in the country [as modifier]:a country lane
3an area or region with regard to its physical features:a tract of wild country a region associated with a particular person, especially a writer, or with a particular work:Steinbeck country includes the Monterey Peninsula
