country

n

1. region, district, territory, tract of land, land, terrain; section, quarter, area, place; parts, neighborhood, Inf. neck of the woods.

2. nation, power, state, commonwealth, city-state; kingdom, realm, royal domain or territory; union, confederation, confederacy.

3. people, public, population, inhabitants, residents, dwellers; members, membership, citizens, citizenry; nation, society, community; nationality, race, tribe, stock, ethnic group.

4. native land, homeland, fatherland, Latin, patria. mother country; land of one's birth, ancestral home, roots.

5. rural districts, provinces, countryside, U.S. Inf. the sticks, Sl. the boondocks, Sl. the boonies, Australian. outback; backwoods, hinterlands, back country, woods, bush, Sl. the bushes; wilds, wilderness, frontier, no man's land, the middle of nowhere.

adj

6. rural, agrarian, agricultural, agrestic; countrified, provincial, rustic, pastoral, Arcadian, bucolic, georgic, sylvan, U.S. woodsy, woodland, woody, wooded; back-wood, backwoods, sequestered, secluded, out-of-the-way; isolated, lonely, remote, removed, Australian. outback; sparsely populated, frontierlike, uninhabited.

7. backward, unlearned, ignorant; unpolished, unrefined, uncultured, unsophisticated, unworldly; naive, simple, innocent, artless; awkward, clumsy, inept, Sl. klutzy, hobnail, loutish, oafish; rude, uncivil, impolite, uncouth, hick, boorish, gross; unmannerly, wild, Inf. woolly, rough, hard, tough.