英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/
• ハイフネーション: coun‧try‧side

名詞

countryside (countable and uncountable, plural countrysides)

1. An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.
   • 1968, Lucian W. Pye, “The Political Process in Action: The Communes”, in The Spirit of Chinese Politics: A Psychocultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development‎, M.I.T. Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 203:

     From November 28 to December 8, 1958, the CCP Central Committee held its sixth plenum in Wuhan, Hopei, and at the end of the session it issued a revealing resolution that declared there had been some misconception about the system and that party committees throughout the countryside should make full use of the five months from December 1958 to April 1959 to tidy up the communes.

2. Such part of a larger area.

   We live in the Swedish countryside.

3. A rural landscape.

使用する際の注意点

• Typically used with the definite article.

派生語

アナグラム

• sidecountry