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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
country
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a country club (=a sports and social club, usually in the countryside)
▪ Ted was a member of an exclusive country club.
a country cottage (=in the countryside)
▪ A lot of people dream of living in a country cottage.
a country road
▪ He was driving along a quiet country road when a tyre suddenly burst.
a country/town church
▪ an attractive country church surrounded by trees
a far-off land/country/place etc
▪ visitors from a far-off land
▪ far-off galaxies
a member state/country/nation (=a country that belongs to an international organization)
▪ the member states of the European Union
a rural/country craft (=done in the countryside)
▪ The museum contains exhibits of old rural crafts.
at opposite ends of the country (=a long distance apart)
▪ They work at opposite ends of the country, so only see each other at weekends.
back country
communist country
▪ a communist country
country and western
country bumpkin
country club
country cousin
country dancing
country gentleman
▪ an English country gentleman
country house
country lane
▪ a quiet country lane
country music
country seat
desert country/land
▪ Large parts of Oman are desert country.
developed countries/nations
developing countries/nations
▪ aid to developing countries
fleeing...country
▪ Masaari spent six months in prison before fleeing the country.
flyover country
▪ I feel happy at 20,000 feet, approaching flyover country, far above that wasteland between Manhattan and California.
Francophone countries/nations/communities
hill country (=a rural area where there are a lot of hills)
▪ the rough hill country on the Welsh border
host country/government/city etc
▪ the host city for the next Olympic Games
hot countries (=where the weather is usually hot)
▪ people who live in hot countries
industrial countries/nations/states
▪ a meeting of the world’s major industrial nations
lead the country (=be in charge of its government)
▪ Some people say she is too old to lead the country.
leave a job/country/Spain etc
▪ Many missionaries were forced to leave the country.
▪ It seems that Tony has left the band for good permanently.
mother country
▪ The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger.
non-member state/country
▪ imports from non-member countries
open countryside/country
▪ At weekends people want to leave the town for open countryside.
parts of the country
▪ He sometimes went to visit friends in other parts of the country.
sb’s place/country of birth
▪ I wanted to find out my father’s place of birth.
served...country
▪ the women who served their country in the war
subjugated people/nation/country
sweep the country/nation/state etc
▪ a wave of nationalism sweeping the country
the country/place of origin (=the country or place where something is made or produced)
▪ The rugs are somewhat cheaper in their country of origin.
the sea/mountain/country air
▪ the salty smell of the sea air
the whole school/country/village etc (=all the people in a school, country etc)
▪ The whole town came out for the parade.
travel the world/country
▪ They travelled the world together.
West Country
what is the world/the country etc coming to? (=used to say that the world etc is in a bad situation)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
communist
▪ It also looks at the problems of mounting an anti- dumping action against a Communist country.
▪ Take any Communist country and it will be better educated than its neighbors.
▪ Persons leaving a Communist country were normally presumed to be fleeing persecution.
▪ In Communist countries, firms can only deal with state trading organisations and the only customer is the government.
developed
▪ Other developed countries as a group showed growths of 8 percent in exports by volume and of 9 percent in imports.
▪ Threshing machines spread where grain was harvested in developed countries.
▪ Millions of jobs are likely to be lost in the developed countries while Third World nations slump deeper into poverty.
▪ In the developed western countries private resources and the capital market were quite adequate.
▪ Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries.
▪ There are considerable differences between the problems of so-called developed and developing countries.
▪ In other words, there have been more military coups in underdeveloped than in developed countries.
▪ Not surprisingly, these developments have been most widely exploited among the developed countries where the barriers to integration have been least.
developing
▪ They would be the envy of most developing countries.
▪ Meanwhile, what does a developing country look like?
▪ It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
▪ New committees were established on commodities, poverty alleviation, service sectors and economic co-operation among developing countries.
▪ It has also been suggested that testing for HIV-1 antibodies in these specimens is cost-effective and suitable for screening in developing countries.
▪ If developing countries tap existing sources for money to improve communications, then there may be less cash for other projects.
▪ The application of geochemical mapping to environmental studies in developing countries is being investigated.
▪ There is a large literature on technology transfer, though not much of it is from the perspective of the developing countries.
different
▪ Activities i. Establish mechanisms for timely and systematic information exchange between public health agencies of different countries about emerging infectious diseases.
▪ A number of examples of positive action in different countries are noted.
▪ Details and procedures change, of course, with alterations in the law, and different countries have different systems.
▪ Was there ever any evidence that juvenile crime rates were significantly different in these countries?
▪ Other keyboard types need different country key mappings and some don't even have a pounds sign!
▪ Today the company boasts 150 titles in 49 different countries, each dealing with a slightly different aspect of the computer trade.
▪ To refine the final video an early version of the cartoon was screened for children from five different countries.
foreign
▪ For example, one may owe the duty to the just government of foreign countries.
▪ They agreed they were quite lucky to escape the fire and set off for a foreign country.
▪ The war, which broke out in August 1998, involves a number of foreign countries and several rebel groups.
▪ That undertaking seemed to be developing into a commitment to conduct a private murder investigation in a foreign country.
▪ Results: Fifty-six percent of Internet requests came from 46 states, and 44 % from 8 foreign countries.
▪ We have no reason to give it to some foreign country.
industrial
▪ Also, we should not forget that the period 1945-73 was a special catching up period for most industrial countries.
▪ The consequence is to be seen in a rise of mass discontent in the main industrial countries.
▪ Many of the major industrial countries have seen unemployment increase - Interruption Mr. Speaker Order.
▪ Citizens in both industrial countries and developing countries watch greater amounts of television each year.
▪ Recent legislation in most industrial countries has helped to turn this into reality.
▪ Workers reaped benefits far beyond those in nearly every other industrial country.
▪ By comparison, the woodland areas of industrial countries appear to be growing slightly in size.
other
▪ In many other countries the initiating steps will be taken by an officer attached to the court.
▪ The tendency to achieve planned targets by whatever means is well known in other Eastern block countries.
▪ These larger companies often own plants in different regions of Britain, as well as in other countries.
▪ The lessons learnt should be of great value to the analysis of other countries in the process of transition.
▪ Despite all this, very little attention has been given to the issue in Great Britain as compared with other countries.
▪ Remarkably similar results have been obtained by studies in the United Kingdom and other countries.
▪ Wealthy people can usually take their money elsewhere, for the benefit of other countries.
▪ That has to be encouraged if our game is to produce the skills which are found in other countries.
poor
▪ It is a proposal which would still leave small countries, and especially poor countries, with a requirement to export wastes.
▪ When it comes to investment, there are today no rich or poor countries.
▪ Many poor countries neglect their national parks.
▪ Today most of the women in poor countries work the land.
▪ They committed themselves to giving 0.7 % of their national wealth to poor countries.
▪ We are fighting this battle community by community in the poorest countries in the world...
▪ Objective: Funding of rural development programmes, mainly for the poorest Third-World countries.
▪ The geographical distribution of internet hosts further illustrates the wide differences in connectivity between rich and poor countries.
rich
▪ The rich in hot countries made for the mountains.
▪ To just be rich in this country is no longer any novelty.
▪ As we become richer as a country we shall be able to do all these things.
▪ When it comes to investment, there are today no rich or poor countries.
▪ Thus, it leaves room for poor countries with well-distributed resources and rich countries with concentrated resource distributions.
▪ High wages no longer come automatically for the unskilled who live in rich countries.
▪ Investment is often portrayed as a cure-all for the economic ills of rich countries.
▪ I felt angry that this kind of suffering could go on right here in the richest country in the world.
western
▪ Yet, despite the mushrooming of coffee bars in the high streets of western countries, supply still exceeds demand.
▪ The Arab states allocate a higher percentage of their gross domestic product to military expenditures than do the Western countries.
▪ Today, however, especially among the younger generation, we see a very different set of attitudes in western countries.
▪ In western countries, in modern times, economic growth and expanding public activity have, with rare exceptions, gone together.
▪ The community health movement in western countries presents a similar challenge to the medical dominance we have described.
▪ The 1980s witnessed a significant shifting of the boundary between the public and the private sectors in many Western countries.
▪ In the developed western countries private resources and the capital market were quite adequate.
▪ Instead, Britain and other Western countries took the easy path of leaving it to Washington.
whole
▪ They are recent arrivals, for the whole country was covered by ice until a few thousand years ago.
▪ The whole country wanted more dams.
▪ Half a century ago, the whole country was alive with rumours of invasion.
▪ Advertising has become an $ 88-billion industry-more than the whole country spends on higher education annually.
▪ The work was to be completed over the whole country in fifteen years.
▪ The Monterey Coast Guard is the worst in the whole country.
▪ Recently when a gang stole some large buddha images from the temple complex at Pagan, the whole country was outraged.
▪ Residents and environmentalists are concerned that Plymouth is becoming a nuclear dumping ground for the whole country.
■ NOUN
member
▪ However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past.
▪ They have no qualms about forcing member countries to spend money on water they might think could be better spent elsewhere.
music
▪ Any blend of black and country music would have powerful precedents.
▪ Given the monochromatic melodrama of modern country music, versatility may not be the correct answer.
▪ I switch from Limbaugh to a country music station.
▪ If Dallas wins, country music will take over.
▪ That was the great thing about country music, it did not mince words.
▪ On the radio, country music.
▪ The real point is, country music is back - like it or not.
▪ No wonder country music sounds the way it does.
■ VERB
flee
▪ One gentleman has fled the country of his own volition, using yet another identity.
▪ Major Rabwoni fled the country a few days later.
▪ He was overthrown in a coup in 1991 and forced to flee the country, but that only fed his popularity.
▪ Many of the 21 had reportedly fled the country.
▪ With that, more than 1. 5 million Hutus fled to neighboring countries.
▪ In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on.
▪ Prosecutors suspected from the outset that Stoner had fled the country.
leave
▪ Four months later she left the country and travelled constantly, following her lover wherever he wanted to go.
▪ Is there no sense of outrage left in this country?
▪ It was to tell the head of state to whom he was accredited that he ought to leave the country.
▪ This is one of the few cities left in the country where a penny still buys time on a meter.
▪ Short of them suddenly having to leave the country, there really isn't any excuse.
▪ Persons leaving a Communist country were normally presumed to be fleeing persecution.
▪ They were left unmolested in inhospitable country.
▪ Many writers and intellectuals, particularly in recent days, have left the country altogether.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
city/local/country boy
▪ For a local boy to come home, this is truly as good as it gets.
▪ Gary Boyce is a local boy who made it big.
▪ It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football.
▪ Joseph must have been a country boy.
▪ Julie was a rich kid who loved to associate with the tougher, more daring local boys.
▪ Once a happy, handsome country boy, Inman has become hardened, cynical, burned out.
▪ They went wild with jubilation as they paid homage to the local boy who made President.
country/farming etc folk
▪ Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
▪ Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
▪ Sadly, country folk have caught on.
▪ The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
▪ The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
▪ The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk.
▪ Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk.
it's a free country
▪ "You can't say things like that!" "I can say whatever I want - it's a free country."
skip town/skip the country
the West Country
the length and breadth of the area/country/land etc
▪ But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country.
▪ They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.
the old country
▪ A change of citizenship did not of course imply a divorce from the old country.
▪ I remember hearing stories in my childhood about how women like that were stoned to death in the old country.
▪ If Kevin wanted a root in the old country, then this, she decided, must be it.
▪ In the Old Country people developed a special taste for TSHUHlnt, since it was different from ordinary cooked meals.
▪ It is one of the oldest country houses in Northamptonshire.
▪ Real yearning for the old country.
▪ So what if Uncle Cedric escaped from the Old Country one step ahead of the law?
▪ They were very religious people that come over here from the old country.
travel the world/country
▪ Although he is the son of a Cork cattle dealer, he spent his first few years after school travelling the world.
▪ By the time she returned from travelling the world, she was in her mid-twenties.
▪ For the next ten years he travelled the world, visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent.
▪ He travels the country conducting workshops and has published eight pieces of Classical music for students.
▪ I used to travel the world for a medium-sized Midwestern bank with five billion dollars in assets.
▪ She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.
▪ We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them in the transit lounges.
underdeveloped country/region etc
▪ However, he is not so undiplomatic as to resist the horrendous hospitality of overindulgent underdeveloped countries.
▪ I presume you wish to help underdeveloped countries but I fear you could do them considerable harm.
▪ The high rates of unemployment so characteristic of underdeveloped countries make women especially vulnerable.
▪ The West creates its power through military research, which forces underdeveloped countries to become passive consumers.
▪ They are sometimes, especially in underdeveloped countries, illiterate.
▪ This pole excludes underdeveloped countries from any participation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Brazil is one of the biggest countries in the world.
▪ Most people in this country are worried about the economy.
▪ Not many people live in the hill country anymore.
▪ Riots and demonstrations broke out all over the country after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
▪ The ceremony was televised in over 30 countries.
▪ The Midwest is largely farming country.
▪ The northeast of the country will experience heavy rainfall and high winds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In our field, probably the most powerful guy in the country.
▪ One of the most important issues facing all countries is the threat of global warming.
▪ Swanepoel, the pilot whom I had met when I first arrived in the country, tipped me off to that one.
▪ The bill proposes raising the ownership limit from the current 12 stations covering no more than 25 percent of the country.
▪ They evolved in the bloodstreams of people in hot countries as a defence against malaria and occur mainly in black people.
▪ Voice over 13,000 children, across the country, have been treated to Kids Out today.
▪ When he formed his own contracting firm, his partners were some of the best-known politicians and railway men in the country.
▪ You have corruption in your country.
II.adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
city/local/country boy
▪ For a local boy to come home, this is truly as good as it gets.
▪ Gary Boyce is a local boy who made it big.
▪ It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football.
▪ Joseph must have been a country boy.
▪ Julie was a rich kid who loved to associate with the tougher, more daring local boys.
▪ Once a happy, handsome country boy, Inman has become hardened, cynical, burned out.
▪ They went wild with jubilation as they paid homage to the local boy who made President.
country/farming etc folk
▪ Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
▪ Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
▪ Sadly, country folk have caught on.
▪ The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
▪ The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
▪ The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk.
▪ Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk.
skip town/skip the country
the West Country
the length and breadth of the area/country/land etc
▪ But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country.
▪ They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.
travel the world/country
▪ Although he is the son of a Cork cattle dealer, he spent his first few years after school travelling the world.
▪ By the time she returned from travelling the world, she was in her mid-twenties.
▪ For the next ten years he travelled the world, visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent.
▪ He travels the country conducting workshops and has published eight pieces of Classical music for students.
▪ I used to travel the world for a medium-sized Midwestern bank with five billion dollars in assets.
▪ She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.
▪ We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them in the transit lounges.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ country music singer Dwight Yoakam
▪ Brattleboro offers all the pleasures of a small country town.
▪ It took us an hour to reach the farm house, driving along winding country roads.
▪ Old country churches are a big tourist attraction.
▪ twisting country roads
▪ Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are decent country folk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Country leg, country foot, country stink.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Country

Country \Coun"try\, a.

  1. Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

  2. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

  3. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.

    She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language.
    --2 Macc. vii. 27.

Country

Country \Coun"try\ (k?n"tr?), n.; pl. Countries (-tr?z). [F. contr['e]e, LL. contrata, fr. L. contra over against, on the opposite side. Cf. Counter, adv., Contra.]

  1. A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.

    Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred.
    --Gen. xxxxii. 9.

    I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state.
    --Stirling.

    Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account
    --Milton.

  2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

    As they walked, on their way into the country.
    --Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ).

    God made the covatry, and man made the town.
    --Cowper.

    Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country.
    --Macaulay.

  3. The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence:

    1. One's constituents.

    2. The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.

      All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him.
      --Shak.

  4. (Law)

    1. A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.

    2. The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.

  5. (Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs.

    Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion.

    To put one's self upon the country, or To throw one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
country

mid-13c., "district, native land," from Old French contree, from Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrata "(land) lying opposite," or "(land) spread before one," from Latin contra "opposite, against" (see contra-). Sense narrowed 1520s to rural areas, as opposed to cities. Replaced Old English land. As an adjective from late 14c. First record of country-and-western music style is from 1942. Country club first recorded 1886. Country mile "a long way" is from 1915, American English.

Wiktionary
country

a. From or in the countryside or connected with it. n. 1 (label en archaic) An area of land; a district, region. (from 13th c.) 2 A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc. (from 13th c.) 3 The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area. (from 14th c.)

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WordNet
country

  1. n. the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: state, land]

  2. 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" [syn: state, nation, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic]

  3. 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" [syn: nation, land, a people]

  4. an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country" [syn: rural area] [ant: urban area]

  5. 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" [syn: area]

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Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Country (album)

Country is an RIAA Gold-certified compilation album by Canadian Country artist Anne Murray, issued in 1974 on Capitol Records.

The album reached #6 on the Billboard Country albums chart and #32 on the Billboard Pop albums chart. The album included material from Murray's previous albums '' This Way Is My Way, Snowbird, Honey, Wheat and Laughter, Talk It Over in the Morning, Straight, Clean and Simple'' and Danny's Song,

Country (EP)

Country E.P. is a collaborative effort by Vermont-based folk artist Anaïs Mitchell and Chicago based Rachel Ries. The five track E.P. was released on CD with three of these tracks released on 7” vinyl. The 7” vinyl was only available from Righteous Babe Records' online store.

Country (Mo Pitney song)

"Country" is the debut single by American country music artist Mo Pitney. It serves as the lead single to Pitney's debut studio album via Curb Records, Behind This Guitar. Pitney co-wrote the song with Bill Anderson and Bobby Tomberlin. It was released through Curb Records in 2014.

Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non- sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.

Sometimes the word countries is used to refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times it refers only to states. For example, the CIA World Factbook uses the word in its "Country name" field to refer to "a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states".

Country (film)

Country is a 1984 American drama film which follows the trials and tribulations of a rural family as they struggle to hold on to their farm during the trying economic times experienced by family farms in 1980s America. The film was written by William D. Wittliff and stars real-life couple Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard. The film was directed by Richard Pearce and was shot on location in Dunkerton and Readlyn Iowa and at Burbank's Walt Disney Studios.

The film was Touchstone Pictures' second production, the first being Splash. Lange, who also co-produced the film, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe award for her role.

Then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan stated in his personal diary that this film "was a blatant propaganda message against our agri programs." Some members of the U.S. Congress took the film so seriously that Jessica Lange was brought before a congressional panel to testify as an expert about living on family farms. Commentator Rush Limbaugh points out that the expert testimony from Lange (as if she really experienced life as a struggling farm wife) demonstrates that members of Congress have a difficult time distinguishing between stories portrayed in movies (and the actors performing in those roles) and reality.

Country was one of three 1984 films, including The River and Places in the Heart, that dealt with the perspective of family farm life "struggles".

Country (disambiguation)

A country in the modern usage is a geo-political region, often synonymous with a state.

Country may also refer to:

  • Country music, a genre of music
  • Rural area, country or countryside
  • Country (film), a 1984 US film
  • Country (album), a 1974 compilation album by Anne Murray
  • Country (EP), an EP by Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Ries
  • Country (book), by Nick Tosches
  • "Country" (Mo Pitney song)
  • Country Weekly, a US magazine
  • The Country Network, a US country music television network
  • Country Financial, a group of US insurance and financial services companies
  • Country Rugby League, an Australian sports league
  • Country Joe McDonald (born 1942), American musician and singer
  • Country (United Kingdom), a subdivision of the United Kingdom
Country (book)

Country was the first book published by Rolling Stone magazine critic Nick Tosches. Released in 1977 under the title Country: The Biggest Music in America, it was retitled in later editions as Country: Living Legends and Dying Metaphors in America's Biggest Music and Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock and Roll.

Rather than a detailed, chronological study of country music, the book is arranged like a fan's scrapbook, leaping across time and subject. Throughout Country, Tosches makes a point of paying tribute to pivotal but undersung figures in country, hillbilly, and blues music, including Emmett Miller, Cliff Carlisle, and Val and Pete. He also pays tribute to early music writers, such as Emma Bell Miles, whose 1904 essay "Some Real American Music" Tosches called "the most beautiful prose written of country music."

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Usage examples of "country".

In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.

Bill had spent a lot of his childhood in country towns, I think that moulded his attitudes to Aboriginal people.

Memphis had pursued its winding course through an alluvial country, made when abreast of Vicksburg a sharp turn to the northeast, as though determined to reach the bluffs but four miles distant.

Quite prudently, he had absented himself from the country during the deaths of William and of Mary.

In a variety of analogous forms in different countries throughout Europe, the patrimonial and absolutist state was the political form required to rule feudal social relations and relations of production.

With few forces to spare, no more than an armored cavalry regiment would initially be deployed in the vast province abutting an unfriendly country and including large Sunni cities.

The blue flowers of the slender-leaved flax, combined with the bright hues of the scarlet acanthus, a flower peculiar to the country.

While Constantius gave laws to the Barbarians beyond the Danube, he distinguished, with specious compassion, the Sarmatian exiles, who had been expelled from their native country by the rebellion of their slaves, and who formed a very considerable accession to the power of the Quadi.

You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me.

This question has been disputed With as great zeal, and even acrimony, between the Scotch and Irish antiquaries, as if the honor of their respective countries were the most deeply concerned in the decision.

As he was an actressy little fellow, he put on a great show of lamentation for the neighbours, referring to the departure from his starving country as a white martyrdom.

For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.

The Admiral having asked him about the condition of the country, the Adelantado recounted to him how Francisco Roldan had arisen with 80 men, with all the rest of the occurrences which had passed in this island, since he left it.

All the officers then took an oath of allegiance to him, as their general and as adelantado of the whole country.

Now was led forth, amidst the insults of his enemies, and the tears of the people, this man of illustrious birth, and of the greatest renown in the nation, to suffer, for his adhering to the laws of his country, and the rights of his sovereign, the ignominious death destined to the meanest malefactor.