| country club |
a suburban social club with a clubhouse and facilities for sports such as swimming, golf, and tennis. |
| country-dance |
an English folk dance characterized by dancers forming two lines facing each other. |
| countryman |
someone who lives in or was born in the same country as oneself. [2 definitions] |
| country music |
popular music that comes from the folk music of the southern or southwestern United States. It generally employs a variety of stringed instruments such as guitar and fiddle. |
| countryside |
a rural area. |
| country squire |
(chiefly British) a wealthy country landowner. |
| country-western |
popular music that comes from the folk music of the southern or southwestern United States. It generally employs vocals and a variety of stringed instruments such as guitar and fiddle; country and western; country music. [2 definitions] |
| countrywoman |
a woman who lives in a rural area. [2 definitions] |
| county |
a subdivision of a U.S. state for purposes of local administration and government. [3 definitions] |
| county agent |
a person employed by the government in rural areas to advise and educate in farming, managing natural resources, home economics, and the like; agricultural agent. |
| county commissioner |
a member of the elected administration in the counties of some U.S. states. |
| county seat |
the city or town in which the government of a county resides. |
| coup |
a brilliant and successful action or maneuver. [2 definitions] |
| coup de grâce |
blow of mercy (French); a death blow or any finishing or decisive stroke or event. |
| coup de main |
blow from the hand (French); a surprise attack or sudden action against an enemy. |
| coup d'état |
a sudden surprise overthrow of a government, accomplished through political means or, more often, by force. |
| coupé |
a four-wheeled carriage with an enclosed area for two passengers and an exposed driver's seat. [2 definitions] |
| coupe |
a two-door automobile that is smaller than a sedan. [2 definitions] |
| couple |
two of the same kind of thing or of related things considered together. [6 definitions] |
| coupler |
a person or device that couples or joins. [2 definitions] |
| couplet |
two successive lines of poetry that usu. rhyme and have the same meter, and often form a single unit of meaning. |