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as in compatriots
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 peasants
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 countrymen
The team also has a heavy Argentine influence with eight fellow countrymen whose careers Silvetti has followed.
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Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
Like Julius Caesar, Aeneas arrives on Italian soil with an army, and makes war on the native inhabitants—his own future countrymen.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Many Iranians who hate their government nonetheless cheered the end of the war, and decried the senseless death of their countrymen at the hands of a faraway government whose concern for Iranian life was open to doubt.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Based on screenwriter Ben Shattuck’s short story of the same name, the film follows two men who fall in love at the Boston Music Conservatory—and reconnect after the war ends, traveling through rural Maine to record the folk songs of their fellow countrymen.
—Ben Rosenstock, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
Danish filmmaker-producer Per Holst, who worked with fellow auteurs and countrymen Lars von Trier, Nils Malmros and Bille August, has died at the age of 86.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2025
However, one of his countrymen, Eddie Pepperell, recently cast some doubt on this.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
Like Julius Caesar, Aeneas arrives on Italian soil with an army, and makes war on the native inhabitants—his own future countrymen.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Many Iranians who hate their government nonetheless cheered the end of the war, and decried the senseless death of their countrymen at the hands of a faraway government whose concern for Iranian life was open to doubt.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Based on screenwriter Ben Shattuck’s short story of the same name, the film follows two men who fall in love at the Boston Music Conservatory—and reconnect after the war ends, traveling through rural Maine to record the folk songs of their fellow countrymen.
—Ben Rosenstock, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
Danish filmmaker-producer Per Holst, who worked with fellow auteurs and countrymen Lars von Trier, Nils Malmros and Bille August, has died at the age of 86.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2025
However, one of his countrymen, Eddie Pepperell, recently cast some doubt on this.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countrymen
Noun
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These were my literary compatriots, out here for reasons unknown.—
Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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Along with his sadistic compatriots, future-Leatherface Jedidiah Sawyer (Sam Strike) breaks out of a mental institution and cuts a bloody swath of chaos across the country.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Sep. 2025
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The forces of the lords put down the revolt by slaying somewhere between seventy thousand and a hundred thousand peasants.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps 200,000 peasants supported a population of 3 million people in the Nile Valley in the 2nd millennium BCE.—
Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Dib points out that several nations are now issuing travel warnings, telling their citizens not to go to Venezuela as a result of the large number of foreigners imprisoned there without trial.—
Manuel Rueda,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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Through a historical and comparative lens, the film highlights parallels and contrasts in the two countries’ paths to statehood—while also examining how those founding moments echo in the present-day identity struggles of their citizens.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Nepal The climbing capital of the world, Nepal has been luring mountaineers for decades, including up the busy South Col route to the summit of Mount Everest.—
Katie Lockhart,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
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On Friday, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that weather had also prevented the recovery of Sinigaglia's body, but a group of mountaineers hoped to bring their countryman down the mountain with the help of a helicopter.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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For Jones, that means confronting her childhood fear of clowns.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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In an operating room, a mad doctor performs plastic surgery to turn new recruits into killer clowns.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Countrymen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countrymen. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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