desertion abandonment defection | withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility, his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless |
abandonment | the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away |
abandonment forsaking desertion | the act of giving something up |
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 |
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 |
dwelling home domicile abode habitation dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
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 |
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 |
domicile legal residence | (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return, every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time, what's his legal residence? |
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 |
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? |
country borage Coleus aromaticus Coleus amboinicus Plectranthus amboinicus | an aromatic fleshy herb of India and Ceylon to South Africa, sometimes placed in genus Plectranthus |
contradance country-dance contredanse contra danse | perform a contradance |
reside shack domicile domiciliate | make one's home in a particular place or community, may parents reside in Florida |
country-bred | rough and uncouth, a country boy |
country-style | typical of the country, country-style sausage, country music |
cross-country | across the countryside, the river runs cross-country, the road runs cross-country |
cross-country | not following tracks or roads, they liked to race cross-country |
nationally nationwide across the nation across the country | extending throughout an entire nation, nationally advertised, it was broadcast nationwide |
up-country | to or in the interior of a country or region, they live upcountry |