Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Country \Coun"try\, a.
   1. Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural;
      rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country
      party, as opposed to city.

   2. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not
      urbane; as, country manners.

   3. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.

            She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel
            tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language. --2
                                                  Macc. vii. 27.

Country \Coun"try\ (k?n"tr?), n.; pl. {Countries} (-tr?z). [F.
   contr['e]e, LL. contrata, fr. L. contra over against, on the
   opposite side. Cf. {Counter}, adv., {Contra}.]
   1. A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent
      nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with
      a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent
      residence, or citizenship.

            Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. --Gen.
                                                  xxxxii. 9.

            I might have learned this by my last exile, that
            change of countries cannot change my state.
                                                  --Stirling.

            Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs
            no account                            --Milton.

   2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

            As they walked, on their way into the country.
                                                  --Mark xvi. 12
                                                  (Rev. Ver. ).

            God made the covatry, and man made the town.
                                                  --Cowper.

            Only very great men were in the habit of dividing
            the year between town and country.    --Macaulay.

   3. The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the
      populace; the public. Hence:
      (a) One's constituents.
      (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to
          dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.

                All the country in a general voice Cried hate
                upon him.                         --Shak.

   4. (Law)
      (a) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
      (b) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is
          drawn.

   5. (Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs.

   {Conclusion to the country}. See under {Conclusion}.

   {To put, or throw, one's self upon the country}, to appeal to
      one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.

Source : WordNet®

country
     n 1: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land
          of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
          [syn: {state}, {land}]
     2: 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" [syn: {state}, {nation}, {land}, {commonwealth},
         {res publica}, {body politic}]
     3: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement
        that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced
        to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: {nation},
         {land}, {a people}]
     4: an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated
        the slower pace of life in the country" [syn: {rural area}]
        [ant: {urban area}]
     5: 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" [syn: {area}]