country-dance country dancing contredanse contra danse contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
alpine salamander Salamandra atra | ovoviviparous amphibian of the Alps |
country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
T-bar lift T-bar Alpine lift | a surface lift where riders hold a bar and are pulled up the hill on their skis |
country music country and western C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
cross country | a long race run over open country |
country people countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
commonwealth country | any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
developing country | a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically |
foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries OPEC | an organization of countries formed in to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum |
country club | a suburban club for recreation and socializing |
area country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography), it was a mountainous area, Bible country |
high country | an area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline |
backwoods back country boondocks hinterland | a remote and undeveloped area |
fatherland homeland motherland mother country country of origin native land | the country where you were born |
buffer state buffer country | a small neutral state between two rival powers |
country state land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
old country | the country of origin of an immigrant |
country rural area | an area outside of cities and towns, his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country |
European country European nation | any one of the countries occupying the European continent |
Scandinavian country Scandinavian nation | any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia |
Balkan country Balkan nation Balkan state | any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula |
African country African nation | any one of the countries occupying the African continent |
Asian country Asian nation | any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent |
South American country South American nation | any one of the countries occupying the South American continent |
North American country North American nation | any country on the North American continent |
Central American country Central American nation | any one of the countries occupying Central America, these countries (except for Belize and Costa Rica) are characterized by low per capita income and unstable governments |
West Country | the southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset) |
Bluegrass Bluegrass Country Bluegrass Region | an area in central Kentucky noted for it bluegrass and thoroughbred horses |
Low Countries | the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands |
Alpine glacier Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |
country doctor | a doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital, do country doctors still make house calls? |
Alpine fir subalpine fir Abies lasiocarpa | medium-tall timber tree of the Rocky Mountains having a narrowly conic to columnar crown |
Alpine celery pine Phyllocladus alpinus | small shrubby celery pine of New Zealand |
alpine totara Podocarpus nivalis | low wide-spreading coniferous shrub of New Zealand mountains |
Alpine anemone mountain anemone Anemone tetonensis | silky-foliaged herb of the Rocky Mountains with bluish-white flowers |
alpine clover Trifolium alpinum | European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers |
Alpine mouse-ear Arctic mouse-ear Cerastium alpinum | widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe |
alpine coltsfoot Homogyne alpina Tussilago alpina | rhizomatous herb with purpleed flowers suitable for groundcover, sometimes placed in genus Tussilago |
alpine gold alpine hulsea Hulsea algida | low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays, northwestern United States |
alpine goldenrod Solidago multiradiata | goldenrod similar to narrow goldenrod but having bristly hairs on edges of leaf stalks, mountainous regions of western America |
old man of the mountain alpine sunflower Tetraneuris grandiflora Hymenoxys grandiflora | whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head, mountainous regions north central United States |
alpine bearberry black bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina | deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries, alpine and circumpolar |
alpine azalea mountain azalea Loiseleuria procumbens | creeping mat-forming evergreen shrub of high mountain regions of northern hemisphere grown for its rose-pink flowers |
alpine ash mountain oak Eucalyptus delegatensis | tall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood |