countryside

Main Entry:
countryside [kuhn-tree-sahyd]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: non-city environment
Synonyms: back roads, boonies, country, environment, land, landscape, non-urban area, scenery, setting, sticks, surroundings, terrain
Main Entry: land
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: earth's surface; ownable property
Synonyms: acreage, acres, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, extent, farming, farmland, field, ground, grounds, holding, home, homeland, loam, mainland, manor, nation, old sod, parcel, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, quinta, ranch, real estate, realty, region, shore, sod, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tillage, tract
Antonyms: sea, sky
Main Entry: nature
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: earth, creation
Synonyms: cosmos, country, countryside, environment, forest, generation, landscape, macrocosm, megacosm, natural history, outdoors, scenery, seascape, setting, universe, view, world
Main Entry: outdoors
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: open air; nature
Synonyms: bucolic surroundings, country, countryside, environment, fresh air, garden, green earth, hill, mountain, open, out-of-doors, patio, without, woods, yard
Antonyms: indoors
Main Entry: suburb
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: neighborhood outside of but reliant on nearby large city
Synonyms: bedroom community, burb, country, countryside, environs, fringe, hamlet, hinterland, outlying area, outpost, outskirts, precinct, purlieu, residential area, slub, suburbia, village
Antonyms: center, metropolis
Related Words
Main Entry: country
Part of Speech: adjective, noun
Related
Adjectives:
agrestic, arcadian, bucolic, country, georgic, pastoral, poimenic, rural, rurigenous, rustic, rusticated, villatic
Main Entry: nature
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
artless, characteristic, consistent with nature, constitutional, created, essential, from nature, genuine, indigenous, ingenuous, intrinsic, legitimate, lifelike, native, normal, ontological, original, real, regular, simple, spontaneous, true, unregenerate
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Land.
Category: 2. Fluid matter; specific fluids
Synonyms:
-nouns
land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma., continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta; tongue of land, neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory (projection); highland (height)., coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium , alluvion; anicon., soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag., acres; real estate (property); landsman.
-verbs
land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land; come ashore, go ashore, debark.
-adjectives
earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian; alluvial; terrene (world); landed, predial, territorial; geophilous; repicolous.
-adverbs
ashore; on shore, on land.
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