Usually means: Homeland of one's ancestors, heritage.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word old country:

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  1. old country, the old country: Merriam-Webster
  2. old country: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. old country: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. old country: Collins English Dictionary
  5. old country: Vocabulary.com
  6. old-country: Wordnik
  7. the old country: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Old Country, old country: Wiktionary
  9. old country: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. old country: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. old-country, old country: Dictionary.com
  12. The Old Country (album), The Old Country: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. old country: Rhymezone
  14. OLD COUNTRY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. old country: FreeDictionary.org
  16. old country: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. old country: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. old country: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the old country: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (Old Country)

noun:  The country of origin of an immigrant or of a person of immigrant descent.
noun:  Alternative form of old country [The country of origin of an immigrant or of a person of immigrant descent.]

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