across the country

1. 1.

   extending throughout an entire nation

   “nationally advertised”

   “it was broadcast nationwide”

   Synonymsnationallynationwideacross the nation

Questions about across the country

What does across the country mean?

across the country means "extending throughout an entire nation".

What is another word for across the country?

Close synonyms include nationally, nationwide, across the nation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is across the country a common word?

across the country is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.