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countryful

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English

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Etymology

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From country +‎ -ful.

Noun

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countryful (plural countryfuls)

  1. As much as a country would hold.
    • 1955, Lenard Kaufman, An Apple a Day, page 190:
      “But aren't these only a few? There must be a whole countryful of children like this.”
    • 1986, Lella Warren, Foundation Stone, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 30:
      Why, child, he's thinking of how to keep a whole countryful of land fertile, and safe from savages.”
    • 2010, Adelaide Pelley Pearson, A Reluctant Heretic, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 244:
      Converts were made singly or in batches, sometimes by the countryful, if the ruler thereof was persuaded to follow the Cross.