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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2
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
Ludvig Åberg, one of the most exciting young players in the game today, has his elder countryman’s attention and admiration.
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Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Even Nuno Espirito Santo did not muster as concentrated a run of Premier League victories as his countryman, who has managed it thanks to another Wolves rarity, with the club naming an unchanged starting line-up for five successive games for the first time in more than five years.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
This game will feature five countrymen including Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shota Imanaga.
—Kilty Cleary, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Only Wayne Rooney and Daniel Sturridge among his fellow countrymen scored more times in that season’s top flight.
—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
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Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Even Nuno Espirito Santo did not muster as concentrated a run of Premier League victories as his countryman, who has managed it thanks to another Wolves rarity, with the club naming an unchanged starting line-up for five successive games for the first time in more than five years.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
This game will feature five countrymen including Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shota Imanaga.
—Kilty Cleary, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Only Wayne Rooney and Daniel Sturridge among his fellow countrymen scored more times in that season’s top flight.
—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for countryman
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For instance, despite Pope Francis's more interventionist views, his Argentine compatriots elected Javier Milei, whose free-market views were the most radical in the country's history.—
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Evans was discreetly appointed as United’s chief strategy officer in November 2023, one month after compatriot and fellow San Francisco 49ers alumnus Morrie Eisenberg joined as chief operating officer.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Part 2: fifteen years later, while fleeing Petrograd, Nabokov’s father is accosted on a bridge by a gray-bearded peasant, who asks for a light and proves to be Kuropatkin in disguise.—
Elif Batuman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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Those graduates will become the citizens and leaders of tomorrow’s America.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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Therefore, an asset that generates income, even in a freeport that remains under the ownership of a US citizen or resident would be subject to US federal tax.—
Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Sorrentino may also be exorcising some conflicting feelings about his birthplace, which is portrayed as a vulgar, crude place populated by crooks and hicks and photographed like its paradise.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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In first grade, when a teacher called him a hick, Ciotti threw an inkwell at her.—
D. T. Max,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
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Several vessels collided, terrifying the uninitiated landsmen on board.—
David Grann,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2023
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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
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The same year, he was appointed as a provincial for the order.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Elves, insectoids, reptilians, aliens, gods, and clowns are all common.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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Fans can also look forward to performances by the iconic Silver Spurs Quadrille, the adorable antics of kids competing in Mutton Bustin’, and plenty of laughs courtesy of the ever-entertaining rodeo clowns.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 May 2025
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Much of the show's cast will be forever remembered as TV's favorite millionaire yokels, but The Beverly Hillbillies certainly didn't mark the end of their careers.—
John Russell,
People.com,
11 May 2025
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Florida yokels versus the elite Hollywood movie-star kind of group.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 July 2024
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“Countryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countryman. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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