Countryside
['kʌntrɪsaɪd]
Definition
(n.) A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.
Edited by Blair
Examples
- Towns and cities flourished, the countryside was well cultivated, trade went on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ahead across the wet countryside I could see Udine in the rain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- So as soon as it became bruited abroad that Eli Whitney had such a machine in his workroom that spot became the Mecca for the countryside. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For the first time we have a wide countryside under one conception of law. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Smaller or greater adventurers seized a castle or a countryside and ruled an uncertain area. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- City and countryside, factories and play, schools and the family are powerful influences in every life, and politics is directly concerned with them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The thing it would emphatically not do is to dam up an insurgent current until it overflowed the countryside. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Jonathan