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country has 8 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a politically organized body of people under a single government
“the state has elected a new president”
the territory occupied by a nation
“he returned to the land of his birth”
an area outside of cities and towns
“his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for country come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.