Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Country (countries, -'s)
countrycountryman (countrymen)
country (countries, -'s), n. [ME contre < late L. contrā, the landscape spread out before one.] (webplay: distance, foreign, friend, gentleman, heavenly, land, life, lying, resides, water, wept, whole).
- Nation; political state; native land.
- Region; district; area of land.
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