Definition of "old country" []

• The native country of an immigrant. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Certainly there could have been no more appropriate farewell gift to Page from the English town whose name so closely links the old country with the United States."
• "The aviophobia he suffered from kept him on the ground, dreaming of living out his life as an old country doc."
• "His grave is in the old country churchyard at Birchington."