(countries)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is one of the political units which the world is divided into, covering a particular area of land.
Indonesia is the fifth most populous ~ in the world.
...that disputed boundary between the two countries...
Young people do move around the ~ quite a bit these days.
N-COUNT
2.
The people who live in a particular ~ can be referred to as the ~.
Seventy per cent of this ~ is opposed to blood sports.
N-SING: usu the N
3.
The ~ consists of places such as farms, open fields, and villages which are away from towns and cities.
...a healthy life in the ~...
She was cycling along a ~ road near Compiegne...
= ~side
N-SING: the N
4.
A particular kind of ~ is an area of land which has particular characteristics or is connected with a particular well-known person.
Varese Ligure is a small town in mountainous ~ east of Genoa.
N-UNCOUNT: supp N
5.
Country music is popular music from the southern United States.
...a famous ~ singer named Katie Cocker.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N n
6.
If you travel across ~, you travel through ~ areas, avoiding major roads and towns.
From here we walked across ~ to Covington.
PHRASE: v PHR
7.
If you travel across ~, you travel a long distance, from one part of a ~ to another.
We’ve just moved all the way across ~ to begin a new life.
PHRASE: v PHR
8.
If a head of government or a government goes to the ~, they hold a general election. (BRIT)
The Prime Minister does not have to go to the ~ for another year.
PHRASE: V inflects