1
as in compatriot
a person living in or originally from the same country as another met a fellow Canadian countryman while traveling in France

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as in peasant
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

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Recent Examples of countryman He was also booked for a foul before he was replaced by his countryman. Andy Naylor, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 Olazábal dedicated the victory at Medinah to his fellow countryman, Seve Ballesteros. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025 The seven-time world champion had a disappointing race, finishing third behind his countryman Bednarek and Andre De Grasse. Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 The team also has a heavy Argentine influence with eight fellow countrymen whose careers Silvetti has followed. Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for countryman
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Noun
  • These figures — sourced, like the others in this piece, from ESPNcricinfo — place him just behind compatriot Nathan Lyon and India’s Ravichandran Ashwin among global wicket-takers in that period.
    Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike his more famous literary compatriots, Milan Kundera and Josef Skvorecky, Klima stuck around in Czechoslovakia, despite being forbidden from publishing for 20 years.
    Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • In those intervening 35 years, China had moved 800 million rural peasants — living in extreme poverty on US$2 a day — into city apartments and integrated them into the global economy.
    Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • More than two million peasant families were given land.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • The Islamists were seen as complicit in India’s worst plane hijack in 1999 and the 2008 attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, which killed several Indian citizens, including two senior diplomats.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Around 60% of Iraq's nearly 46 million citizens are under the age of 30, a demographic that could determine whether the election reinvigorates a stagnant political system or deepens disillusionment.
    Emma Graham, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • Ricky develops romantic feelings for Chad even though Russ plays him as a soft-spoken, possibly dim rural hick who may well be a literal man-child.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Without so many of the fears, complexes, and prejudices hick shaped us in the ‘90s and the ‘00s.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 June 2025
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  • Several vessels collided, terrifying the uninitiated landsmen on board.
    David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Though as a Black man Gould had only limited opportunities for advancement, he was later promoted to landsman and then wardroom steward.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 June 2022
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  • Sanders is a Catholic priest and former Augustinian provincial in California and lives in the Augustinian community in North Park.
    Gary Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • The same year, he was appointed as a provincial for the order.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • Former Des Plaines officer Mike Albrecht recalled to NBC Chicago that when police were assigned to surveil Gacy after Piest's disappearance, the part-time clown would try to pal around with officers and invite them into his house.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The girls are just as down to clown, coming up with funny drunk poses and faces.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • It was adapted into a huge hit movie starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, but the breakout characters were local yokels Ma and Pa Kettle, who went on to star in eight spinoff movies.
    Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • To the yokel who makes his donations in cash and is proud of himself for knowing what LEO stands for.
    Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2025

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“Countryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countryman. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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