Talk:constituent country

RfV discussion for the sense “a country that is part of a larger entity” — RfV failed
Kept. See archived discussion of February 2009. 07:01, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

AFAIK, this technical term refers only to a specific administrative division of the United Kingdom; is it used more generally to refer to “a country that is part of a larger entity”? (In an idiomatic way; i.e., in instances where undefined: couldn’t be simply substituted with any of a number of synonyms — such as undefined: — according to personal præference.) †  ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 02:55, 24 December 2008 (UTC)


 * clocked out. DCDuring TALK 20:30, 5 February 2009 (UTC)


 * RfV failed. Striking header, deleting sense, and archiving discussion. †  ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 19:36, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

I restored this sense with quotations. Both senses seem pretty sum of parts. The request for attesting quotations could only have been used to substantiate the sense as defined, not any other "idiomatic" sense. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Sum of parts
Arguably, this is a sum of parts. But it is the kind of annoying term worth documenting: it finds some pretty restricted uses to some specific things. Like, if "country" usually refers to a sovereign state, why are the parts of the U.K. called "countries"? And why were the republics of the Soviet Union sometimes called "countries" but not the U.S. states? The collection of quotations showing different uses is alone of value. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)