countryman

countryman

noun

Definition of COUNTRYMAN

1

a person living in or originally from the same country as another <met a fellow Canadian countryman while traveling in France>

Synonyms countryman, landsman

Related Words countrywoman; nationalist, patriot; citizen, national, subject; aborigine, native; homeboy, resident

Near Antonyms alien, foreigner, immigrant, outsider

2

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country <though neither well-educated nor well-dressed, the countryman presented the farmers' case before the state legislature>

Synonyms bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel

Related Words boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf; greenhorn, tenderfoot; peasant, peon; backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms slicker, smoothy (or smoothie); metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

Antonyms cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate