Usually means: Nation with its own government.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word country:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. country, the country: Merriam-Webster
  2. country, the country: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. country: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. country, the country: Collins English Dictionary
  5. country: Vocabulary.com
  6. Country, country, country, country: Wordnik
  7. country, the country: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. country: Wiktionary
  9. country: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. country: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. country: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Country, country, country: Dictionary.com
  13. country: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. country: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Country (Anne Murray album), Country (EP), Country (Mo Pitney song), Country (disambiguation), Country (film), Country (identity), Country (movie), Country (music), Country, The country: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Country: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. country: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. country: Rhymezone
  19. country: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. country: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Country: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. country: FreeDictionary.org
  23. country: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. country: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. country: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. country: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. country: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Country (genre), Country (music), Country (radio format), country: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. country: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. country, country: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. country: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) A somewhat precisely delimited region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
noun:  (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land; a district, region.
noun:  (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
noun:  (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
noun:  (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
noun:  (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
adjective:  From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.
adjective:  Of or connected to country music.
adjective:  (India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
noun:  Ellipsis of country music. [(music) A style of popular music that originated in the folk music of the rural population of the southern and western United States and characterized by string-band instruments and simple melodies.]

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