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See also:COUNTRY (from the See also:Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; See also:Late See also:Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the See also:tract of See also:land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood) , an extent of See also:land without definite limits, or such a region with some See also:peculiar See also:character, as the " See also:black See also:country," the " fen country " and the like . The See also:extension from such descriptive See also:limitation to the limitation of occupation by particular owners or races is easy; this gives the See also:common use of the word for the land inhabited by a particular nation or See also:race . Another meaning is that See also:part of the land not occupied by towns, " rural " as opposed to " See also:urban " districts; this appears too in " country-See also:house " and " country See also:town "; so too " countryman " is used both for a rustic and for the native of a particular land . The word appears in many phrases, in the sense of the whole See also:population of a country, and especially of the See also:general See also:body of See also:electors, as in the expression " go to the country," for the See also:dissolution of See also:parliament preparatory to a general See also:election . |
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