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countryman
[ kuhn-tree-muhn ]
noun
- a native or inhabitant of one's own country.
Synonyms: landsman, compatriot
Antonyms: foreigner
- a native or inhabitant of a particular region.
- a person who lives in the country.
- an unsophisticated person, as one who lives in or comes from a rural area; rustic.
countryman
/ ˈkʌntrɪmən /
noun
- a person who lives in the country
- a person from a particular country or from one's own country (esp in the phrase fellow countryman )
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Gender Note
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Derived Forms
- ˈcountryˌwoman, noun:feminine
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Word History and Origins
Origin of countryman1
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Example Sentences
She later went on to appear (from 2000 to 2003) in the series Clarissa and the Countryman, with Johnny Scott.
In Charlie Countryman, Evan Rachel Wood is Gabi, the girl you meet for two seconds and instantly fall for.
“The human species is a deeply flawed biological product”—so wrote my countryman Arthur Koestler.
But, of course, this "other" is most often anything but; it is actually friend, neighbor and countryman.
Urs Fischer, the young contemporary artist and fellow countryman, stands apart.
Every year since then the Chinese have gathered in the city and remembered the day when their countryman's life was saved.
Went to work in my own way; was a countryman just come into a snug bit of inheritance, looking out for a corner of land.
You are only an honest countryman wandering amid a crowd of courtiers—virtue in danger amid a myriad of vices.
Her face, notwithstanding its emaciation, reminded him of Latta, the wife of his friend and fellow-countryman Schmidt.
In advance, with an officer, was a man attired in the dress of a countryman, who pointed in the direction of the cottage.
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