Meanings
plural countryfuls
- As much as a country would hold.
“But aren't these only a few? There must be a whole countryful of children like this.”
1955, Lenard Kaufman, An Apple a Day, page 1902 more examples
Why, child, he's thinking of how to keep a whole countryful of land fertile, and safe from savages.”
1986, Lella Warren, Foundation Stone, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 30Converts were made singly or in batches, sometimes by the countryful, if the ruler thereof was persuaded to follow the Cross.
2010, Adelaide Pelley Pearson, A Reluctant Heretic, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 244
Origin
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countryful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countryful
“countryful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countryful. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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