COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood) , an extent of

land

LAND

without definite limits, or such a region with some

peculiar

PECULIAR

character

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

, as the " black country," the " fen country " and the like. The extension from such descriptive limitation to the limitation of occupation by particular owners or races is easy; this gives the common use of the word for the

land

LAND

inhabited by a particular nation or race. Another meaning is that

part

PART

of the land not occupied by towns, " rural " as opposed to " urban " districts; this appears too in " country-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

" and " country town "; so too " countryman " is used both for a rustic and for the native of a particular land. The word appears in many phrases, in the sense of the whole

population

POPULATION (Lat. populus,
people
- PEOPLE
; populare, to populate)

of a country, and especially of the general

body

BODY

of electors, as in the expression " go to the country," for the dissolution of

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

preparatory to a general election.

End of Article: COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

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