Meaning of దేశం in English

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
The rock through which a vein runs.
Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
Family; lineage.
One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.