the land
noun
the countryside considered as a place to grow your own food or live in a simple healthy way
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The countryside and relating to the countryside
provincial
adjective
of or relating to the parts of a country outside the capital or the large cities
the (great) outdoors
the countryside, especially considered as somewhere that you visit to do activities such as walking
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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dray
a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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