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By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

(usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.

(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.

Adjectif

From or in the countryside or connected with it.
1. When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

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Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- There is little hope that the two countries will normalize relations; their governments seem to hate each other and would just as soon stay on bad terms.
- "Of course violence against women is not limited to Islamic countries but Islamic countries have become stigmatised as being mysogynist societies which are inherently anti-women."
- The country is coming to grips and accepting its responsibilities.
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- The ambassador-at-large was designated to the Middle East as a region, rather than to a specific country.
- I haven't seen her for weeks. For all I know, she's moved to another country.
- $ is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.

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