COUNTRYSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does countryside mean? 

• COUNTRYSIDE (noun)
  The noun COUNTRYSIDE has 1 sense:

1. rural regions

  Familiarity information: COUNTRYSIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTRYSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rural regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("countryside" is a kind of...):

country; rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)

 Context examples 

I am afraid that I must leave you to your own devices, as the appearance of two inquiring strangers upon a sleepy countryside might excite more gossip than I care for.

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

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

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

Collapse of the Maya civilization that occurred between 800 and 900 A.D.. Symptoms of the collapse included abandonment of the countryside and ceremonial centers as well as a cessation of cultural activities.

(Classic Collapse, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

We are all familiar with the feeling of relaxation and 'switching-off' which comes from a walk in the countryside, and now we have evidence from the brain and the body which helps us understand this effect.

(Sound of Nature Helps Us Relax, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

All over the countryside, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light green of the new foliage.

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

A rainy night had been followed by a glorious morning, and the heath-covered countryside, with the glowing clumps of flowering gorse, seemed all the more beautiful to eyes which were weary of the duns and drabs and slate greys of London.

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

Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day, while on every hand enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of old East Anglia.

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

Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside—East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)