countryful

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noun

As much as a country would hold.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nouncountryful (plural countryfuls)

plural countryfuls

  1. 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 190
    2 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 30

    Converts 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

Cite this entry
APA

countryful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countryful

MLA

“countryful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countryful. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “countryful,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countryful.

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