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countrywide

countrywide

2 3.5
Happening across the whole country
  • adjective
  • /ˈkʌntriˌwaɪd/
translation icon : a nivel nacional
  • Within 10 years of independence, India completed two countrywide elections, putting parliamentary democracy on a firm footing.
  • countrywide elections

Examples

  • Medical insurance is not just a personal issue; it is a topic of countrywide discourse.

    Blog text (30)
  • Reports from Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere in the country indicate the block is wholesale and countrywide.

    Blog text (30)
  • And what resulted was a countrywide program.

  • And yet there is a countrywide effort to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from voting.

    Blog text (10)
  • But I thought this issue was important enough that I should make a public case for a countrywide shutdown, which I did.

  • The Democratic Action Party, the opposition party in Malaysia, initiated a series of activities that would evolve into a countrywide movement to preserve the site.

    Academic text (1993)
  • On April 1, 1933, Germany's new masters staged a countrywide boycott of Jewish stores, lawyers, and physicians.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The coup d'état on 1 September 1969 led by Colonel Gadaffi had countrywide support.

    Blog text (22)
  • Her old-fashioned frugality, born from the necessities of her youth, is newly refound in countrywide recycling programs born from environmental necessity.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The country implemented a countrywide initiative to reduce plastic waste and promote recycling.

Synonyms

national
vscountrywide
2.0

About a whole country and its people

means specifically that something happens or exists throughout the country
nationwide
vscountrywide
265 3.0

Happening across the whole country

is used for throughout the country, not limited to regions
across the country
vscountrywide
236 1.8

In every part of the country

happens throughout the entire country rather than only in parts
all over the country
vscountrywide
164 2.1

In many different places across the country

is about covering the whole country rather than single areas
nationally
vscountrywide
160 3.0

Across the whole country

is used for something happening throughout the entire country
across the nation
vscountrywide
46 2.6

All over the country

focuses on happening across the whole country, not in areas

Antonyms

1.0

Belonging to a particular area or community, not to a larger region

How Widespread

worldwide
200 2.1
nationwide
265 3.0
countrywide
2 3.5
regional
521 3.5
local
1.0

Surface Forms

countrywide positive

Morphology

countrywide = country + wide (transparent) = country + wide

The meaning is directly composed from 'country' + 'wide' indicating extent across a country, which is readily inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word countrywide comes from country and wide, where 'wide' means 'across' or 'covering a large area', like worldwide. So countrywide means happening or existing across the whole country.