单词 | country-born |
释义 | > as lemmascountry-born country-born adj. (a) born in a particular country; native; (b) born in a rural area. ΚΠ 1575 T. Newton tr. C. A. Curione Notable Hist. Saracens iii. f. 90 He displaced the Inhabitauntes of the Countrey out of theyr Offices, Roomes and Dignities, and placed his owne Nation and people in the same, and amonge them (empouerishing and vtterly oppressing the Countrey borne persons). 1794 J. Blatchford Narr. Remarkable Occurr. (ed. 2) 21 The Princess-Royal..was now manned chiefly with lascars (country born people). 1834 Knickerbocker Aug. 136 I am a plain man, and country-born. Until some seven or eight years since, I never heard a stave of fashionable music—par excellence. 1854 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 8 16 Country born Chinese have a club called Sip Gee Seeah; they elect 12 Towkays or trustees. 1973 J. G. Farrell Siege of Krishnapur ii. 24 It surely could not be that Louise was ‘country born’ and had thus never been to England, a condition that he had heard was much misprised in Indian society. 2010 Sunday Times (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Culture section) 24 The ee cummings poem Maggie and Milly and Molly and May appealed to the country-born Merchant's sense of ‘children discovering themselves through nature and solitude’. < as lemmas |
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