Form of American folk music popular in the Southern Appalachian region of the United States prior to the early 1930s, emphasizing jug and mountain string bands; influential in early country music.

(sports) An endurance sport and method of getting about involving travelling on skis, uphill as well as downhill .

Alternative spelling of cross-country skiing

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fresh, country, eggs. / A common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.

chicken-fried steak

country music.

(Ulster) people from any part of Ireland except northeast Ulster

(music) A genre of country blues from Mississippi.

plural of country-fried steak

(India) The state of Kerala. / (Britain) The county of Yorkshire.