the country
noun
1
: the people who live in a country
The whole country was stunned by the news.
The President has the support of most of the country.
2
: land that is away from big towns and cities : countryside
She lives out in the country.
They prefer the country to the city.
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Former President Jimmy Carter helps an Egyptian voter cast his ballot at a polling station in Cairo on May 24, 2012, as a team with the Carter Center monitored the country's first free presidential election.
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Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2024
Twelve years later, estimates of the dead range as high as six hundred and twenty thousand; another fourteen million people, more than half the country’s citizens, have been displaced from their homes.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
Dzmitry Kuchuk, a 50-year-old Belarus opposition activist, was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison, according to the country's human rights group Viasna.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Dec. 2024
For more than 200 years, the bald eagle has been featured on the country’s Great Seal, which shows the bird carrying an olive branch and arrows in its talons.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
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Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2024
Twelve years later, estimates of the dead range as high as six hundred and twenty thousand; another fourteen million people, more than half the country’s citizens, have been displaced from their homes.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
Dzmitry Kuchuk, a 50-year-old Belarus opposition activist, was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison, according to the country's human rights group Viasna.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Dec. 2024
For more than 200 years, the bald eagle has been featured on the country’s Great Seal, which shows the bird carrying an olive branch and arrows in its talons.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
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“The country.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20country. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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