Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics
- noun people living in the same country; compatriots
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Examples
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However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit.
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However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 20: Milan Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Yet he also knew, through his kinfolk and through his memories, the contrasting discipline of labour in the fields and the powerful superstitions and traditions that countryfolk still practised.
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Capturing the country's soul and landscape was vital if it was going to be taken seriously by Al-Daradji's countryfolk.
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In the scene in question, members of the court have fled to the Forest of Arden and are shocked to learn that countryfolk must hunt and kill their own food.
On Stage, a Force of Rabbit Ellen Gamerman 2011
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She knows that, if her countryfolk were livid at the prospect of their cash being used to bail out profligate Greece, they would be positively incandescent were she to soften her stance on Turkey.
Turkey Knocks: Will EU Let It Enter? Patience Wheatcroft 2010
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She knows that, if her countryfolk were livid at the prospect of their cash being used to bail out profligate Greece, they would be positively incandescent were she to soften her stance on Turkey.
Turkey Knocks: Will EU Let It Enter? Patience Wheatcroft 2010
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She knows that, if her countryfolk were livid at the prospect of their cash being used to bail out profligate Greece, they would be positively incandescent were she to soften her stance on Turkey.
Turkey Knocks: Will EU Let It Enter? Patience Wheatcroft 2010
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He says players tend to be rugged countryfolk not the crop-carrying plutocrats that soccer buffs are making them out to be.
In Soccer-Mad Argentina, the National Sport Is a Lame Duck 2010
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