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COUNTRIFIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does countrified mean?
• COUNTRIFIED (adjective)
The adjective COUNTRIFIED has 1 sense:
1. characteristic of rural life
Familiarity information: COUNTRIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characteristic of rural life
Synonyms:
countrified; countryfied; rustic
Context example:
rustic awkwardness
Similar:
rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)
Context examples
Our little place was very countrified, considering that it is so close to town.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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