Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rural region.
- noun The inhabitants of a rural region.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A section of country; a piece of land; a neighborhood.
- noun The inhabitants or dwellers of a district or section of country; a neighborhood: as, the whole country-side was aroused by the news.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rural landscape . - noun A
rural area, or the rural part of a larger area, as in "theSwedish countryside."
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rural regions
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term countryside was a euphemism at best; most of the nearby land had been torn up under the claws, hooves, and feet of the participants.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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The term countryside was a euphemism at best; most of the nearby land had been torn up under the claws, hooves, and feet of the participants.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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The term countryside was a euphemism at best; most of the nearby land had been torn up under the claws, hooves, and feet of the participants.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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As Sarrut drives the cows along the dusty road, the countryside is already full of activity around him.
Living fields again 2006
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Walking downhill to Tbilisi's main thoroughfare, Rustaveli Prospekt (named for Shota Rustaveli, a twelfth-century Georgian poet), I saw flower stalls, dark-haired women in black dresses, and verdant hills in the distance; the countryside is always close by, because of Tbilisi's medieval compactness.
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Walking downhill to Tbilisi's main thoroughfare, Rustaveli Prospekt (named for Shota Rustaveli, a twelfth-century Georgian poet), I saw flower stalls, dark-haired women in black dresses, and verdant hills in the distance; the countryside is always close by, because of Tbilisi's medieval compactness.
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I was struck by the number of times 'business' appears in the documents, which is about 300 times, and the number of times the word 'countryside' appears, which is four times.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I was struck by the number of times 'business' appears in the documents, which is about 300 times, and the number of times the word 'countryside' appears, which is four times.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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One time, it will be a great, iron automaton, defending the countryside from the marauding army of the vile Duke Ivanovski.
365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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One time, it will be a great, iron automaton, defending the countryside from the marauding army of the vile Duke Ivanovski.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
brtom commented on the word countryside
Home—the place, the countryside—was still there, still pretty much as I had left it, and there was no reason I could not go back to it if I wanted to. Wendell Berry "A Native Hill"
July 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word countryside
The countryside - anagram of no city dust here.
October 5, 2009