countrywide

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Throughout a country.

   In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.

2. 2
   adv

   Throughout a country.

   …America, with such vital power, with a people ambitious, wealthy, great and of a noble past, has a task before it, into which it will enter with a will, since the need is felt countrywide.

3. 3
   adj

   occurring or extending throughout a country or nation

Etymology

From country + -wide.