COUNTRY PEOPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does country people mean? 

• COUNTRY PEOPLE (noun)
  The noun COUNTRY PEOPLE has 2 senses:

1. people living in the same country; compatriots

2. people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics

  Familiarity information: COUNTRY PEOPLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTRY PEOPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People living in the same country; compatriots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

country people; countryfolk

Hypernyms ("country people" is a kind of...):

citizenry; people (the body of citizens of a state or country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

People raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

country people; countryfolk

Hypernyms ("country people" is a kind of...):

common people; folk; folks (people in general (often used in the plural))

 Context examples 

Others had to tell of country people, coming in from neighbouring villages, who had seen great trees lying torn out of the earth, and whole ricks scattered about the roads and fields.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)