Noun

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.

(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

A section of a large company.

(biology, taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio ) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants]] or [[fungus, fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank

Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.

A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.

(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code

(UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

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.

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* 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.

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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.:

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.