• Countrywide

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: kÅ­n'tri-wÄ«dʹ, IPA: /ËŒkÊŒn.tɹiˈwaɪd/
    • Rhymes: -aɪd
    • Hyphenation: coun + try + wide

    Alternative forms

    • country-wide

    Origin

    country + -wide

    Full definition of countrywide

    Adjective

    countrywide

    1. Throughout a country; nationwide.

    Adverb

    countrywide

    1. Throughout a country; nationwide.
      • 1919 November 15, A. M. Graham, "The Memorial Building a Living Tribute", Arts & Decoration, volume XII, number 1, page 22:…America, with such vital power, with a people ambitious, wealthy, great and of a noble past, has a task before it, into which it will enter with a will, since the need is felt countrywide.
      • 1988, John Maxwell Hamilton, Edgar Snow: A Biography, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-31909-9, page 259:On such a day the streets of Peking and other cities could be peaceful, as if order had been restored countrywide.
      • 2011, Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan, PublicAffairs, ISBN 978-1-58648-763-8, pages 216–217:The operation lifted Mujahidin pride and morale countrywide.
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