Difference between Town and Country

What is the difference between Town and Country?

Town as a noun is a settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city while Country as a noun is a nation state, a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.

Town

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city a rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week. The residents,(as opposed to , the students etc.) of a community having a university

Country

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: From the countryside or connected with it.Of or connected to country music.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A nation state, a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.A former independent nation state (e.g., England or Scotland).A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; countryside.Short for country music, a genre of popular music that has rural Southern roots and embraces numerous subgenres and styles.

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