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Synonyms

countryside

American  
[kuhn-tree-sahyd] / ˈkʌn triˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. a particular section of a country, especially a rural section.

  2. its inhabitants.


countryside British  
/ ˈkʌntrɪˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. a rural area or its population

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of countryside

First recorded in 1615–25; country + side 1

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At another with Carolina Herrera, guests were transported by luxury train to an estate in the British countryside for dinner in a vineyard.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

"I voted to leave the United Kingdom," 76-year-old Piddington resident Herbert Owen, told AFP during the vote, saying it felt like the government did not "care" about the bucolic village in the Oxfordshire countryside.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Seyfried, 40, and Sadoski, 50, tied the knot in a private countryside ceremony in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Meanwhile in the shires, the sheer demand for data centres sees pressure to expand provision from Slough, into the leafy countryside.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

You would never have known that we’d had floodwater in the countryside of Snapfinger, Mississippi.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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