countryful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]countryful (plural countryfuls)
- 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.