NOUN
- people living in the same country; compatriots
- people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics
How To Use country people In A Sentence
- She says that her ex stopped feeding the cats (country people often don't provide food for outdoor cats) and that the two half-grown kittens weren't there when she went to pick them up (she had found a person willing to take them in.) Kitten Chan-ho and Kitten Chantho: Origins (Updated)
- Kale is the more primitive of the two, and was the ordinary green stuff of country people in most parts of Europe until the end of the Middle Ages, when the headed cabbages were bred.
- His portraits of country people and their rituals, their hypocrisies and lecheries are certain to remind readers of Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Edgar Lee Masters.
- M'Queen had laid stress on the name given to the place by the country people, Ainnit; and added, 'I knew not what to make of this piece of antiquity, till I met with the Anaitidis delubrum in Lydia, mentioned by Pausanias and the elder Pliny.' The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- When you are speaking with honest country people about the beauty of their fields, do not talk about "Flora spreading her fragrant mantle on the superficies of the earth, and bespangling the verdant grass with her beauteous adornments. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out
- Country people will recall the mini-cyclones lifting cocks of hay into the air and carrying them for a distance before dropping them back to ground again.
- There have portrayed all country people as stupid bumpkins.
- But that piece of filming became part of family folklore, as my parents were convinced it had been edited to make its subject appear shy and tongue-tied, to fit their own preconceptions about country people.
- Country people are prone to "argufying" -- the greater and more weighty the question, the more ready are the bucolic Solons to engage with it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
- He was most at home when working on the land and had a natural affinity with country people.
