the old countrynoun [ S ]
uk/ˈəʊld ˌkʌn.tri/us/ˈoʊld ˌkʌn.tri/the country that a person or a person's family originally came from:
Grandpa always talked about how it was different in the old country.
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Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation
- Afro
- citizenship
- compatriot
- countrywide
- homegrown
- homeland
- internation
- land
- motherland
- nation
- nation-state
- national
- offshore
- soil
- South Sudan
- state
- state-controlled
- statehood
- stateless
- subject
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