Meanings
nouncountry merchant (plural country merchants)
plural country merchants
- Synonym of country store (“general store in a rural setting”).
The wrapping paper bore the name of a country merchant. The robbers had purchased material for their masks at this country store[…]
1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening PostSynonyms: country store
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of country store (“general store in a rural setting”).
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country merchant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/country%20merchant
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“country merchant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/country%20merchant. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “country merchant,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/country%20merchant.
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