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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural, pastoral |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, bucolic, campestral, countrified, georgic, homey, out-country, outland, provincial, rustic, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, urban |
| Main Entry: | unpolished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude |
| Synonyms: | agrestic, boorish, coarse, discourteous, gauche, ill-mannered, impolite, inelegant, inurbane, rough, rude, rugged, tattered, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unfinished, unrefined |
| Antonyms: | polished, sophisticated |
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| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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