Definition of "country people" []

• People raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics (noun)
• People living in the same country; compatriots (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Babylon Hill, but from what original I could find none of the country people to inform me."
• "In the northern lochs, the herring are in innumerable shoals; at one season, the country people say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish."
• "Liguori, 9 Nov., 1732, at Scala, near Amalfi, Italy, for the purpose of labouring among the neglected country people in the neighbourhood of Naples."