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country noun The immediate area or district in which one lives. [DARE labels this usage "especially South Midland" in the U.S.]

1835 Crockett Account 45 If you was to talk that way to a man in my country, he'd give you first-rate hell. 1864 C A Walker CW Letters (April 24) this is a great deal better a country than Cherokee Co. 1939 Hall Coll (Smokemont NC) Ask Will Elmore where he is. [He] knows everbody in that country. 1957 GSMNP-23:2:10 I can tell you every man [who] entered land in this country around here. 1998 Dante OHP-25 We've held revivals all over this country at school houses and everywhere.