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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
More than 10,000 miles after beginning their journey, three Argentine cyclists arrived safely in Kansas City to celebrate the 2026 FIFA World Cup experience with their countrymen.
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Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
Murray did play alongside Gilgeous-Alexander and his other countrymen in 2024, when Canada went to the Paris Olympics with gold medal ambitions.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 June 2026
His 424-foot shot to dead center came on a 1-1 pitch from countryman Tomoyuki Sugano (4-4).
—CBS News, 28 May 2026
While there is usually a distinct home advantage on Court Simonne-Mathieu, French fans backing their countryman Luka Pavlovic met their match Sunday evening.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 May 2026
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Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
Murray did play alongside Gilgeous-Alexander and his other countrymen in 2024, when Canada went to the Paris Olympics with gold medal ambitions.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 June 2026
His 424-foot shot to dead center came on a 1-1 pitch from countryman Tomoyuki Sugano (4-4).
—CBS News, 28 May 2026
While there is usually a distinct home advantage on Court Simonne-Mathieu, French fans backing their countryman Luka Pavlovic met their match Sunday evening.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for countryman
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Two of the initial suspects were released; the security guard and three of his compatriots are expected to stand trial in August.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
22 June 2026
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Above all, Mourinho values his compatriot’s leadership and committment, not just on the pitch but also in the dressing room.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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In the early nineteenth century, after Egyptian peasants happened upon ancient fragments, archaeologists began to look in such places for pieces of manuscript, which could vary in size from a few letters to a slice of text.—
Madeleine Schwartz,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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That moniker comes from a violent 1967 peasant uprising against oppressive landlords in Naxalbari, a village in the shadow of the Himalayan foothills in northeast India.—
Dhruv Tikekar,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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When he was arrested, Ali Hemani, a dual citizen of the United States and Pakistan, was being monitored by the FBI because of his alleged connection to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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Recent citizen science data suggests the bloom affected nearly 8,000 square miles.—
Harriet Marsden,
TheWeek,
18 June 2026
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When Johnson was vice president and visiting Europe, there were reports filed by these British ambassadors in several countries that basically made fun of him as a hick.—
Wendy Naugle,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2026
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So a bunch of hicks from Topeka were left up to our own devices of going down to Robert Hall and finding something that might be kind of cool.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
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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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Marlowe, the son of a poor Canterbury cobbler, and Shakespeare, the son of a Stratford glover and alderman, were both unlikely artistic geniuses, provincials in a nation in which social class was rigidly fixed.—
Heller McAlpin,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Sep. 2025
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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 island village is beset by sea hags, serial killers, creepy clowns and other evils that interfere with Tom’s dream of turning Widow’s Bay into a Martha’s Vineyard-like tourist destination.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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Even the announcers are laughing at the clown Way to swing the bat.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
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It was left to the feds in Boston to arrest Farwell, after Meatball’s local yokels adamantly refused to do anything other than try to broom the crime by one of their own.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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Part of his way of taking it yokel — besides bringing in Foo Fighter Rami Jaffee on accordion and Willie Aron blowing harmonica — was to add a previously unheard yodel to the chorus.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Countryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countryman. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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