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Elector [ih-lek-ter]
Main Entry:
elector [ih-lek-ter]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: citizen who votes
Synonyms: balloter, constituent, voter
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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Adjectives:
country, agrestic, arcadian, bucolic, georgic, pastoral, poimenic, rural, rurigenous, rustic, rusticated, villatic
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