WEST COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West Country mean? 

• WEST COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun WEST COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. the southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset)

  Familiarity information: WEST COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEST COUNTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("West Country" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

On the whole, however, the betting was in favour of Wilson, for Bristol and the west country stood by him to a man, whilst London opinion was divided.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You mean the West Country bankers,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land ever since.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a cheery companion, gurgling and chuckling as it ran, like the dear old trout-stream in the West Country where I have fished at night in my boyhood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We’ve got two more comin’ up—Gully and Pearce—who’ll make you London milling coves wish they was back in the west country again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind the carriage there rode a hundred or more noblemen and gentlemen of the west country, and then a line of gigs, tilburies, and carriages wound away down the Grinstead road as far as our eyes could follow it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)