west country

1. 1.

   the southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset)

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofEngland

Questions about west country

What does west country mean?

west country means "the southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset)".

Is west country a common word?

west 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.