(rare) A person's adopted country.

plural of step-country

A narrow rural road.

plural of country lane

plural of cross country

(US) Said when others seek to restrict one's behavior as a way of pointing out that an action is not illegal or forbidden.

(golf, slang) Dense rough.

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

(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.