plural of country.

Alternative form of in country

(military, US) In combat in a foreign country, especially in Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Obsolete spelling of country

From or in the countryside or connected with it. / Of or connected to country music. / (India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.

(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.

(horror fiction) The fictionalized universe populated by the supernatural beings of H.P. Lovecraft's horror fiction and that of other authors inspired by Lovecraft's works, especially the fictionalized version of New England.

(informal) Eerie small town and countryside settings resembling the locales found in H.P. Lovecraft's fictional universe.

(US) A curried chicken and rice dish of the Southern United States, often with currants and almonds.

The countryside around Dedham Vale in eastern England, famously depicted by the English landscape painter John Constable (1776–1837).