Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
countrywide en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌkʌn.tɹiˈwaɪd/
- kŭn'tri-wīdʹ
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin -āta
Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta
Old French contreebor.
Middle English contre
English country
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *wīdaz
Old English wīd
English wide
English -wide
English countrywide
From country + -wide.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Throughout a country.
In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.
1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:Sure of his superiority, Chiang launched a countrywide offensive to establish his supremacy. In October, his troops occupied the important North China city of Changchiakou (Kalgan) and a number of other cities evacuated by the People's Liberation Army in accordance with its strategy of not holding cities but concentrating on wiping out enemy troops.
1977, Jack Chen, “The Kuomintang's Last Gamble”, in The Sinkiang Story, New York; London: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253:
Coordinates
countywide · intraprovincial · intrastate · statewide · locoregional · local · interstate · provincewide · continental · regional · transcontinental · provincial · continentwide · interprovincial
Synonyms
nationwide
countrywide en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /ˌkʌn.tɹiˈwaɪd/
- kŭn'tri-wīdʹ
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin -āta
Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta
Old French contreebor.
Middle English contre
English country
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *wīdaz
Old English wīd
English wide
English -wide
English countrywide
From country + -wide.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Throughout a country.
On such a day the streets of Peking and other cities could be peaceful, as if order had been restored countrywide.
1988, John Maxwell Hamilton, Edgar Snow: A Biography, Indiana University Press,, →ISBN, page 259:The operation lifted Mujahidin pride and morale countrywide.
2011, Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan, PublicAffairs, →ISBN, pages 216–217:…America, with such vital power, with a people ambitious, wealthy, great and of a noble past, has a task before it, into which it will enter with a will, since the need is felt countrywide.
1919 November 15, A. M. Graham, “The Memorial Building a Living Tribute”, in Arts & Decoration, volume XII, number 1, page 22:
Coordinates
countywide · statewide · provincially · provincewide · locoregionally · locally · regionally
Relateds
cross-country
Synonyms
nationwide
Translations (8)
ro în toată țara (Throughout a country) · de landesweit (Throughout a country) · hu országszerte (Throughout a country) · pl krajowy (Throughout a country) · vi toàn quốc (Throughout a country) · tr ülke çapında (Throughout a country) · vi khắp nước (Throughout a country) · bg по цялата страна (Throughout a country)