OLD COUNTRY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The country of origin of an immigrant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("old country" is a kind of...):

country of origin; fatherland; homeland; mother country; motherland; native land (the country where you were born)

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 Context examples: 

Betwixt you and me, Mas'r Davy—and you, ma'am—wen Mrs. Gummidge takes to wimicking,—our old country word for crying,—she's liable to be considered to be, by them as didn't know the old 'un, peevish-like. Now I DID know the old 'un, said Mr. Peggotty, and I know'd his merits, so I unnerstan' her; but 'tan't entirely so, you see, with others—nat'rally can't be!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)