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 |
residency
residence
abidance | the act of dwelling in a place |
| 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 |
dormitory
dorm
residence hall
hall student residence | a college or university building containing living quarters for students |
| hall of residence | a university dormitory |
mansion
mansion house
manse hall residence | a large and imposing house |
religious residence
cloister | residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) |
| residence | the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president), he refused to live in the governor's residence |
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 |
residence
abode | any address at which you dwell more than temporarily, a person can have several residences |
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 |
| Low Countries | the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands |
| 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 |
| residence time | the period of time spent in a particular place |
contradance
country-dance
contredanse
contra danse | perform a contradance |
| 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 |