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| Main Entry: |
elector
[ih-lek-ter]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | citizen who votes |
| Synonyms: | balloter, constituent, voter |
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| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political territory; nation |
| Synonyms: | citizenry, citizens, commonwealth, community, constituents, electors, grass roots, homeland, inhabitants, kingdom, land, native land, patria, people, polity, populace, public, realm, region, society, soil, sovereign state, state, terrain, voters |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
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| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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