as in country
the open rural area outside of big towns and cities
everyone hates to see the countryside ruined by new developments
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Recent Examples of countryside
Its vegan formula is enriched with creamy shea butter and refreshing verbena leaf extract (that also happens to be 100 percent organic) for an invigorating shower experience that whisks you away to the lush countryside of Provence.
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Olivia Rose Rushing, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
Hailing from the Lazio countryside, Fortunata’s experience cooking for locals led her to build a restaurant in a town near Rome.
—Wyles Daniel, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Tarr went on to direct the accomplished The Man From London, which starred Tilda Swinton, before retiring after The Turin Horse, a luminously stark period chamber drama about a father and his adult daughter living alone in the barren Hungarian countryside over the span of about a week.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
The route begins near Salzburg and Lake Fuschl, then moves through the Tyrolean Alps and Bavarian countryside, before culminating in Munich with an authentic Oktoberfest celebration.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2026
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Olivia Rose Rushing, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
Hailing from the Lazio countryside, Fortunata’s experience cooking for locals led her to build a restaurant in a town near Rome.
—Wyles Daniel, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Tarr went on to direct the accomplished The Man From London, which starred Tilda Swinton, before retiring after The Turin Horse, a luminously stark period chamber drama about a father and his adult daughter living alone in the barren Hungarian countryside over the span of about a week.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
The route begins near Salzburg and Lake Fuschl, then moves through the Tyrolean Alps and Bavarian countryside, before culminating in Munich with an authentic Oktoberfest celebration.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for countryside
Noun
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Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country through DNA testing.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Jan. 2026
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Our country is built on immigrants.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Here's why the bassist moved to this 'middle of nowhere' Arizona town.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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The most enduring symbol of that series: Manu Ginobili at age 36, weaving his way through traffic in Game 5, giving a stiff-arm to 2013 tormentor Ray Allen before exploding for an out-of-nowhere dunk on Chris Bosh.—
Jeff McDonald,
ExpressNews.com,
18 May 2020
Noun
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Great Basin encompasses more than 77,000 acres of stunning wilderness, including a cave system, alpine lakes, pinyon-juniper forests, and high altitude peaks.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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None of them were and Milan, based in a league that didn’t have the growth mindset of the Premier League, entered the wilderness without the safety net of more and more TV money.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Countryside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countryside. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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