Main Difference
The main difference between Town and Country is that the Town is a settlement that is bigger than a village but smaller than a city and Country is a distinct region in geography; a broad term that can include political divisions or regions associated with distinct political characteristics.
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Town
A town is a form of human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages but smaller than cities, though the size definition for what constitutes a each of these terms varies considerably in a different part of the world
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Country
A country is a region that is identified as a distinct entity in political geography.
A country may be an independent sovereign state or part of a larger state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction. There is no hard and fast definition of what regions are countries and which are not.
Countries can refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times it can refer only to states. For example, the CIA World Factbook uses the word in its “Country name” field to refer to “a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states”.[Note 1]
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Town (noun)
A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city.
“This town is really dangerous because these youngsters have Beretta handguns.”
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Town (noun)
Any more urbanized center than the place of reference.
“I’ll be in Yonkers, then I’m driving into town to see the Knicks at the Garden tonight.”
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Town (noun)
A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
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Town (noun)
The residents (as opposed to gown: the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.
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Town (noun)
Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion.
“Call me when you get to town.”
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Town (noun)
A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
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Town (noun)
An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor.
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Town (noun)
The whole of the land which constituted the domain.
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Town (noun)
A collection of houses enclosed by fences or walls.
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Town (noun)
A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
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Country (noun)
An area of land; a district, region. from 13th c.
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Country (noun)
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc. from 13th c.
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Country (noun)
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area. from 14th c.
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Country (noun)
A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. from 16th c.
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Country (noun)
ellipsis of country musicfrom 20th c.
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Country (noun)
The rock through which a vein runs.
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Country (noun)
The female genitalia, especially the vagina.
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Country (adjective)
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
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Country (adjective)
Of or connected to country music.
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Country (noun)
a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory
“the country’s increasingly precarious economic position”
“Spain, Italy, and other European countries”
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Country (noun)
the people of a nation
“the whole country took to the streets”
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Country (noun)
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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Country (noun)
an area or region with regard to its physical features
“a tract of wild country”
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Country (noun)
a region associated with a particular person, work, or television programme
“an old mansion in Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ country”
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Country (noun)
short for country music