Country-and-western

Definition

country /'kʌntri/ n ၁။ (က) [C] ႏိုင္ငံ။ European countries ❍ leading industrial countries ❍ There will be rain over all parts of the country. (ခ) the country [sing] တိုင္းသူ ျပည္သား။ ႏိုင္ငံ။ The whole country is on holiday. ၂။ the country [sing] ေက်းလက္ေတာရြာ။ live in the country ❍ spend a pleasant day in the country ❍ country cottages roads/ life. See also COUNTRYSIDE ၃။ [U] အရပ္ေဒသ။ rough/ marshy country ❍ We passed through miles of wooded country. ❏ across country [ IDM ] ေတာလမ္း။ walking/ riding across country. See also CROSS COUNTRY ❏ country-and-western n [U] abbr C and W (also country music ) အေမရိကန္ ေတာင္ပိုင္းႏွင့္ အေနာက္ပိုင္း ႐ိုးရာဂီတမွေပါက္ဖြားလာေသာ ေတးဂီတအမ်ဳိးအစား။ a country-and-western singer. ❏ country club n ေက်းလက္အပန္းေျဖ ကလပ္အသင္း။ ❏ country dance n ( esp Brit ) ေက်းလက္႐ိုးရာအက။ ❏ country house n (ေက်းလက္ေဒသရိွ) ၿခံႀကီးဝင္းက်ယ္ႏွင့္ ေရွးလက္ရာအိမ္ႀကီးရခိုင္။ ❏ country seat n = SEAT n ၅ ❏ country-wide adj, adv ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ဝန္းလံုး။ a country-wide mail-order service ❍ The film will be released in London in March and country-wide in May. ❏ go to the country [ IDM ] ( Brit ) (အစိုးရက)ပါလီမန္ အသစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ဖို႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲလုပ္ရန္ ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ He went to the country over the issue and lost the general election.

Examples

1. Ministers from four Arab countries met today in Cairo.
2. We do not have capital punishment in this country.
3. He felt he had betrayed his country.
4. A crime that has shocked the whole country
5. Unemployment affects both town and country.
6. We went for a picnic in the country.
7. A large country house
8. Friendly country people
9. East of here is mostly farming country.
10. [Shakespeare/Thomas Hardy etc country] : The area around Stratford-upon-Avon is known as Shakespeare country.