Country vs Year - What's the difference?
country | year |
(label) An area of land; a district, region.
* 2010 , David Vann, The Observer , 7 Mar 2010:
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:
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
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* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 3:
* 2010 , The Economist , 3 Feb 2011:
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*, II.17:
*:I was borne and brought up in the Countrie , and amidst husbandry.
* 2000 , Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian , 4 Mar.:
Country music.
(label) The rock through which a vein runs.
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
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Of or connected to country music.
The time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
(by extension) The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body.
A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
(sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
A level or grade in school or college.
The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
As nouns the difference between country and year
is that country is (label) an area of land; a district, region while year is the time it takes the earth to complete one revolution of the sun (between 36524 and 36526 days depending on the point of reference).As an adjective country
is from or in the countryside or connected with it.country
English
Noun
(countries)- We walk along flat, open country , red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees.
- 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.
George Goodchild
- It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.
- These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country ’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
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- 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.
Derived terms
/* Derived terms */ * country mile * countryside * countrywide * high country * old countrySee also
*Adjective
(-)Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----year
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia year) (en noun)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, 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.}}
