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How to pronounce “country”
Hear “country” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for country
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of country with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A New Napa Cuisine
AUDIENCE: What's your favorite restaurant in wine country?
- Definition summary
- The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc. [from 14th c.]
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce country
A New Napa Cuisine
AUDIENCE: What's your favorite restaurant in wine country?
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “country”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc. [from 14th c.]
- (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district. [from 13th c.]
- (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. [from 16th c.]
- The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public. [from ca. 1300]
- (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
- Ellipsis of country music. [from 20th c.]
- (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
- (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
- [Adjective]
- From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.
- Of or connected to country music.
- (India) Originating in India rather than being imported from abroad.
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