Country vs. Americana — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Country and Americana
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Definitions
Country
A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation).
Americana
Americana artifacts are related to the history, geography, folklore, and cultural heritage of the United States of America. Americana is any collection of materials and things concerning or characteristic of the United States or of the American people, and is representative or even stereotypical of American culture as a whole.What is and is not considered Americana is heavily influenced by national identity, historical context, patriotism and nostalgia.
Country
A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory
The country's increasingly precarious economic position
Spain, Italy, and other European countries
Americana
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Materials relating to American history, folklore, or geography or considered to be typical of American culture
Americana are featured in the exhibit.
Country
Districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital
A country lane
The airfield is right out in the country
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Americana
(used with a sing. verb) The culture of America
"[Hip-hop is] as much of a fixture in Americana as hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet" (Ken Capobianco).
Country
An area or region with regard to its physical features
A tract of wild country
Americana
Any artifact (such a books or furniture or art) that is distinctive to America.
Country
Short for country music
Americana
Any artifact (such as books or furniture or art) that is distinctive of America
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Country
A nation or state.
Country
The territory of a nation or state; land.
Country
The people of a nation or state; populace
The whole country will profit from the new economic reforms.
Country
The land of a person's birth or citizenship
Foreign travel is restricted in his country.
Country
A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture
Hill country.
Bible country.
Country
An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area
A vacation in the country.
Country
The people of a district who are eligible for jury service.
Country
A jury.
Country
(Informal) Country music.
Country
Of, relating to, or typical of the country
A country road.
Country cooking.
Country
Of or relating to country music.
Country
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
Country
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
Country
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
Country
A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
Country
Ellipsis of country music
A country song
A country singer
A country festival
Country
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
Country
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Country
Of or connected to country music.
Country
Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
Country
A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred.
I might have learned this by my last exile,that change of countries cannot change my state.
Many a famous realmAnd country, whereof here needs no account
Country
Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
As they walked, on their way into the country.
God made the covatry, and man made the town.
Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country.
Country
The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
All the country in a general voiceCried hate upon him.
Country
A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
Country
The rock through which a vein runs.
Country
Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
Country
Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
Country
Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language.
Country
The territory occupied by a nation;
He returned to the land of his birth
He visited several European countries
Country
A politically organized body of people under a single government;
The state has elected a new president
African nations
Students who had come to the nation's capitol
The country's largest manufacturer
An industrialized land
Country
The people who live in a nation or country;
A statement that sums up the nation's mood
The news was announced to the nation
The whole country worshipped him
Country
An area outside of cities and towns;
His poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country
Country
A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);
It was a mountainous area
Bible country
