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Where the Wi-Fi gets weaker and the silence gets louder.
means The land outside towns and cities — fields, villages, and open rural scenery.
from A straightforward compound: 'country' (from Latin 'contrata,' meaning the land lying opposite or spread before you, via Old French 'contree') plus 'side,' used here in the old sense of a region or tract of land — the same 'side' found in 'seaside' or 'hillside.' Put together in Middle English, it simply meant the land of that particular side or district, long before it narrowed to mean 'everything that isn't city.'
- UK usage
- Over 80 percent of England is rural land
- Linguistic cousin
- Countrified entered English as a put-down
- Night sky
- Only place most people still see the Milky Way