County vs Countryside - What's the difference?
county | countryside |
(historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 274:
*:She was a tall girl and county , with Hilary's walk: she seemed to topple even when she sat.
(en noun) (typically used with the definite article)
A rural landscape.
A rural area, or the rural part of a larger area, as in "the Swedish countryside."
As nouns the difference between county and countryside
is that county is the land ruled by a count or a countess while countryside is a rural landscape.As an adjective county
is characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.county
English
Noun
(counties)- traditional county