Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of the
country ;rural .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Between 1935 and his death in 1959, Wright built more than 150 Usonians, and his idea of living in houses in a countrylike setting, which is, after all, the mainstay of Broadacre City, took hold in the American popular imagination.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Between 1935 and his death in 1959, Wright built more than 150 Usonians, and his idea of living in houses in a countrylike setting, which is, after all, the mainstay of Broadacre City, took hold in the American popular imagination.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Between 1935 and his death in 1959, Wright built more than 150 Usonians, and his idea of living in houses in a countrylike setting, which is, after all, the mainstay of Broadacre City, took hold in the American popular imagination.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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As a songwriter, he's a reliable Nashville content provider, with the occasional hit, like Loveless's "Halfway Down" or Mark Chesnutt's "Gonna Get a Life"; as a performer, he's too smart and too much of a hard-country purist to break out of "Americana" - that is, countrylike music that doesn't get played on commercial radio.
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Just two months earlier Jamie and Sheila had lived in Boerne, Texas, a countrylike suburb northwest of San Antonio, where they owned their wonderful new home.
Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000
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Afternoons were the time for promenading, when every conceivable type of carriage could be seen making slow progress along the countrylike lanes.
Tender Rebel Lindsey, Johanna 1988
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Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still countrylike, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets.
Little Women 1921
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Apparently one of these, one sultry afternoon, stopped before the shadowed window of a photographer's; she was a handsome, well-dressed woman, yet bearing a certain countrylike simplicity that was unlike the restless smartness of the more urban promenaders who passed her.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869
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The group performed at a 1990 music festival in Kazakhstan for an international audience that included Brian Eno and great folk-rock producer Joe Boyd, and eventually parlayed the exposure into gigs in Europe, moving toward a more rocklike sound that blended nicely with the countrylike twang of Tuvan music.
Chicago Reader 2010
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The group performed at a 1990 music festival in Kazakhstan for an international audience that included Brian Eno and great folk-rock producer Joe Boyd, and eventually parlayed the exposure into gigs in Europe, moving toward a more rocklike sound that blended nicely with the countrylike twang of Tuvan music.
Chicago Reader 2010
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