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countrywide

coun·try·wide
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [kuhn-tree-wahyd]
    • /ˈkʌn triˈwaɪd/
    • /ˌkʌn.triˈwaɪd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kuhn-tree-wahyd]
    • /ˈkʌn triˈwaɪd/

Definitions of countrywide word

  • adverb countrywide Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country. 3
  • adverb countrywide Countrywide is also an adjective. 3
  • adjective countrywide nationwide; extending across the whole country 3
  • adverb countrywide across the whole country 3
  • adjective countrywide by or throughout the whole land or nation 3
  • adjective countrywide extending across or throughout the whole country; nationwide: a countrywide reaction; a countrywide highway system. 1

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Origin of countrywide

First appearance:

before 1920
One of the 12% newest English words
First recorded in 1920-25; country + wide

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Countrywide

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

countrywide popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 66% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for countrywide

adj countrywide

  • communal — Communal means relating to particular groups in a country or society.
  • civil — You use civil to describe events that happen within a country and that involve the different groups of people in it.
  • domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
  • governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • internal — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.

adjective countrywide

  • national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • coast-to-coast — A coast-to-coast journey or route is one that goes from one coast of a country or region to the opposite coast.

adverb countrywide

  • nationally — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • generally — usually; commonly; ordinarily: He generally comes home at noon.

Antonyms for countrywide

adj countrywide

adverb countrywide

  • locally — in a particular place, area, location, etc.

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