Noun

(countries)

(label) An area of land; a district, region.

* 2010 , David Vann, The Observer , 7 Mar 2010:

We walk along flat, open country , red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees.

A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.

* 2007 , Chris Moss, The Guardian , 17 Feb 2007:

This is condor country - the only region this far east where you can see the magnificent vulture - and a small national park straddling the passes, El Condorito, is a good stopover for walkers and birders.

The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country .}}

* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 3:

It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.

* 2010 , The Economist , 3 Feb 2011:

These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country ’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries' by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax ' countries , is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.}}

*, II.17:

*:I was borne and brought up in the Countrie , and amidst husbandry.

* 2000 , Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian , 4 Mar.:

I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in the country is the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.

Country music.

(label) The rock through which a vein runs.

Noun

(centuries)

A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically'' a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the ''twentieth century'', which stretches from (''strictly'') 1901 through 2000, or (''informally'') 1900 through 1999. The ''first century AD was from 1 to 100; a yearhundred.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess), chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.

(archaic)  A hundred things; a hundred.

*, II.4.2.i:

'tis the subject of whole books: I might cite a century of authors pro'' and ''con .

(cricket)  A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.

(cycling)  A ride 100 kilometres in length.

(US, informal)  A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.