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say it: KUHN-tree
country is a noun meaning "a politically organized body of people under a single government". It is pronounced /ˈkʌntɹi/ — KUHN-tree. It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
the territory occupied by a nation
“he returned to the land of his birth”
“he visited several European countries”
an area outside of cities and towns
“his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for country come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.