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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
countryside
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
open countryside/country
▪ At weekends people want to leave the town for open countryside.
roam the countryside/desert/forests etc
▪ Wild sheep roam the hills.
surrounding countryside
▪ We decided to explore the surrounding countryside.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
▪ Caerleon serves as a centre both for walkers and motorists exploring the beautiful countryside of the Usk valley and eastern Gwent.
▪ The course takes them through some of Herefordshire's most beautiful countryside.
▪ The beautiful green countryside of October in California reeled by madly.
▪ It relies frequently on lush music and transitional shots of the beautiful Czech countryside.
▪ It is surrounded by beautiful gently rolling countryside, where the hillsides are often covered in vines and the valleys richly wooded.
▪ I met him one spring day thirty years ago in the beautiful Kentish countryside where he lived.
lovely
▪ This is a province of lovely undulating countryside mostly thickly wooden, blending into hills and mountains.
▪ There are numerous walks directly from East Runton - footpaths and bridleways lead out into the lovely gentle countryside and unspoilt coast.
▪ Easily Accessible: There are numerous pretty villages to visit in the area and all are surrounded by the lovely unspoilt countryside.
▪ The hotel is peacefully situated in lovely countryside, about a 25 minute walk from the village centre.
open
▪ They crossed Dalmeny bridge and were in open countryside when the attackers struck.
▪ However, we were told an application for a house in the open countryside in Montgomeryshire had just been called in.
▪ It opens on to open countryside and is easy to get to.
▪ Not all barns are in open countryside.
▪ Much of the open countryside is subject to special control.
▪ The company's location is a wide area of open, rolling countryside, parched grassland dissected by open dry fissures.
▪ Head through here and out again into open countryside.
rolling
▪ Little cameos come to mind: The glorious greens of the rolling countryside in the slanting rays of the evening sun.
▪ It is surrounded by beautiful gently rolling countryside, where the hillsides are often covered in vines and the valleys richly wooded.
▪ Only an hour's drive from the beautiful Kashubian Lake district, rich in forests and rolling countryside.
▪ Our route soon took us away from the stream to open rolling countryside.
▪ All around there are numerous pretty villages and many miles of gentle rolling countryside to explore.
▪ It was set on the roof at the front of the Hall, and the view over rolling countryside was magnificent.
▪ A climb up the Eildon Hills will present the energetic with stunning panoramic views of the surrounding gentle rolling countryside.
▪ The company's location is a wide area of open, rolling countryside, parched grassland dissected by open dry fissures.
surrounding
▪ This meant that the cities which ultimately grew up within this rural society were of a different character from the surrounding countryside.
▪ Approximately 150 people make up the population of Tibthorpe; their homes with beautiful views over the surrounding countryside.
▪ After a while the Feldgendarmen left without searching the surrounding countryside.
▪ Thus the sphere of influence of Tyneside spreads far out into the surrounding countryside and along the coast.
▪ The surrounding countryside is delightful and the South Downs are a very popular walking area.
▪ Today, most sit isolated from their environment, yet once each related closely to is surrounding countryside.
▪ Goblin wolf riders raid and pillage far afield, while outriders scour the surrounding countryside for any sign of enemy armies.
■ VERB
drive
▪ They drove up towards the countryside, trees and fields appearing on the horizon.
▪ The AlIens think Catherine acted rightly and doubt the propriety of couples driving about the countryside in any circumstances.
▪ Then in the afternoon I realized we were driving through countryside.
▪ So they rented a truck and drove through the countryside around the Cusiana prospect.
▪ One day the players would drive through countryside that looked dimly familiar.
▪ Communities driven from the countryside huddled behind heavily defended walls while outside the horde roamed and plundered at will.
enjoy
▪ They threaten not just our ability to enjoy our towns and countryside but our health and our children's future.
▪ I enjoy living in the countryside and like nothing more than a stroll through the villages.
▪ They, along with others living and enjoying the countryside, would be very sorry if these security inspections were discontinued.
▪ We will also need an ever greater sensitivity to our own responsibilities when we set forth to enjoy the countryside.
▪ Then read on ... Everyone can enjoy birds and the countryside.
▪ Naturally there are many walks to be enjoyed in the surrounding countryside, and through the lemon groves that surround the village.
▪ You can take the Malt Whisky Trail and visit seven excellent distilleries and enjoy the stunning countryside at the same time.
live
▪ The proportion of the population living in the countryside had been declining throughout the century.
▪ What is it like to live in the countryside?
▪ Up to the sixteenth century or so, most people in Britain lived in the countryside.
▪ In providing our public services, we will continue to recognise the particular needs of people who live in the countryside.
▪ More people are living in the countryside and in new towns than ever before.
▪ These scenes are a record of the way people living in the countryside enjoyed themselves in their leisure time in 1946.
▪ Individuals such as this one live in the countryside, no more a nuisance than the rabbits occupying the same hedgerow.
move
▪ Khmer Rouge guerrillas move around the countryside in small groups of five to 10.
▪ People moving in from the countryside also bring goats and sheep with them.
▪ By then the Dysarts had moved into the countryside.
roam
▪ She roamed around the countryside and was often seen, but only in the distance.
▪ Would you rather have them roaming the countryside on trail bikes or all-terrain vehicles?
surround
▪ Villagers are proud and fortunate to be living here in this peaceful little village, surrounded by beautiful countryside.
▪ All the surrounding countryside, scorched by the intense heat, is now in flames.
▪ The hotel is surrounded by unspoilt rugged countryside, mountains, hills and forests.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the depths of the ocean/countryside/forest etc
▪ Illegal activity is not limited to the depths of the forest.
▪ So the depths of the oceans are full of lights moving rhythmically around and continually turning off and on.
▪ The sporadic gunfire, explosions and shouting in the depths of the forest, seemed to belong to a different world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She went to an expensive girls school situated deep in the heart of the countryside.
▪ Somerset is famous for its rolling hills and beautiful countryside.
▪ The countryside of Tuscany is a wonderful landscape of fields and valleys, with many historic monuments.
▪ The Provencal countryside provided the inspiration for many artists.
▪ We marveled at the peacefulness of the Carolina countryside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the surrounding countryside, scorched by the intense heat, is now in flames.
▪ He is planning another trip into the countryside to demonstrate his solar cells as well as a new solar cooker.
▪ Many had the means to purchase a dacha in the countryside.
▪ Stephenson drew huge, rabid crowds on his barnstorming tours of the Indiana countryside.
▪ The countryside south of Tabor is mainly cereal-growing, dotted here and there with little lakes.
▪ The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries.
▪ There is no identity to the countryside.
▪ You only have to look at the countryside to understand why.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countryside

Countryside \Coun"try*side`\ (-s?d`), n. A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. [Eng.]
--W. Black. Blackmore.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
countryside

mid-15c., literally "one side of a country" (a valley, a mountain range, etc.), from country + side (n.); hence, "any tract of land having a natural unity" (1727).

Wiktionary
countryside

n. 1 A rural landscape. 2 A rural area, or the rural part of a larger area, as in "the Swedish countryside."

WordNet
countryside

n. rural regions

Gazetteer
Countryside, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 5991
Housing Units (2000): 2818
Land area (2000): 2.690473 sq. miles (6.968292 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.690473 sq. miles (6.968292 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16873
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.778885 N, 87.874006 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Countryside, IL
Countryside
Countryside, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 295
Housing Units (2000): 131
Land area (2000): 0.120415 sq. miles (0.311874 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.120415 sq. miles (0.311874 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15975
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.015985 N, 94.655297 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66202
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Countryside, KS
Countryside
Wikipedia
Countryside (disambiguation)

Countryside refers to rural surroundings.

Countryside or countrysides may also refer to:

Countryside (Åland)

'''Countryside ''' is a subdivision of Åland and one of the Sub-regions of Finland since 2009.

Usage examples of "countryside".

Sunday, May 17 0313 hours China countryside Near Amoy, China As the SEALS bailed out of the six-by-six they saw a rocket coming.

It is being bandied about in the countryside that you are a spirit, a ghost that has come back to haunt Appleton Manor and cause the death of one that dwelt there.

Avalon, Audubon might almost have traveled through the French or English countryside.

Incidentally, the innocuous-looking Air Force lieutenant colonel that you had the other nutty Aussie squire around probably knows more about the countryside than your entire pack of pilots.

Buyse says that they fought lustily at this ruffle at Axminster, but he is of one mind with me, that a few whiffs of shot and cavalry charges would scatter them over the countryside.

But their wants soon reduced them to stock-raiding and other predatory practices, with the result that in the end the whole countryside made common cause against them, and so the last phase of the fratricidal struggle deteriorated into a man hunt away in the backblocks north of Perth and the southern districts, full of heroic incidents, but devoid of historical interest except as far as serving, by reason of its sordidness and cruelty, to extinguish thoroughly any lingering sympathy which the coastal population might still cherish for the lost cause of Western Australia.

I hope to raise a considerable body of the Scottish Highlanders, who will march from the backcountry to the coast, there to meet with troops sent from England, and in the process, to subdue the countryside on behalf of the King.

She should have come here before the war maybe, when it was a countryside and beautiful, recognisably that of the Barbizon painters?

I think there must have been something in the genetic memory of the Bodark settlers that made them seek out a countryside that looked exactly like your County Derry.

It seemed that long ago, a holy man, a bodhisattva, was walking through the Indian countryside when he came upon a band of poor, troubled herdsmen and their emaciated flock.

The chief of the volunteer fire department said bluntly that his men should not have to bail out Bonita Vista because of their shortsightedness and stupidity but that they would have to, since a blaze would endanger the town and surrounding countryside.

Although richer by far than most of the aristocracy, they were businesspeople, and had no thought of spending half the year idly persecuting dumb animals in the countryside.

They were supposed to drift around the countryside, and since the Cajun had been up in Omaha for something like a year, presumably without connections to his former stomping grounds, it puzzled Remo.

Yet he glanced repeatedly from side to side, blinking at the view-more severe than the Ransoniville countryside, the foothills of the Chautauqua Mountains were higher, more broken and discontinuous than that terrain.

In the Chibcha legends, Bochica wandered through the countryside teaching not only useful crafts but a puritanical attitude toward life.