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countryful en · NOUN

Etymology

From country + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a country would hold.
   • Why, child, he's thinking of how to keep a whole countryful of land fertile, and safe from savages.” 1986, Lella Warren, Foundation Stone, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 30:
   • Converts were made singly or in batches, sometimes by the countryful, if the ruler thereof was persuaded to follow the Cross. 2010, Adelaide Pelley Pearson, A Reluctant Heretic, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 244:
   • “But aren't these only a few? There must be a whole countryful of children like this.” 1955, Lenard Kaufman, An Apple a Day, page 190:

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