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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
This block featured Argentina’s first game of the tournament, played at Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Stadium), and thousands who didn’t buy tickets to the game flocked to watch it at the festival with their fellow countrymen.
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Sophia Lindberg,
Kansas City Star,
22 June 2026
The stadium was filled with Jordan nationals making the near 7,500-mile trek to watch their countrymen make their World Cup debut.
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Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
Fellow attacker Akram Afif fell to his knees in both joy and disbelief after the final whistle blew, taking in the roars coming from his countrymen who had made the long trip to the United States.
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Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
13 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.
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
1 June 2026
Unlike many of his countrymen who had family show them how to play the game, Ramírez was raised in a household that wasn’t obsessed with the sport — in fact, none of his immediate family members played.
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Andy Martinez,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
Rahm is at a loss to explain the lone missing major title for Spain, considering the talent of his countrymen.
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CBS News,
12 May 2026
The Blues are ushering in new general manager Alexander Steen, who is Swedish, and reporters have already joked with him about the club adding several of his countrymen to the roster.
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The Athletic Nhl Staff,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
The air campaign was short, Libyan leader and longtime thorn in the side of Washington Moammar Gadhafi was dead within eight months – killed by his own countrymen.
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Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2026
Sophia Lindberg,
Kansas City Star,
22 June 2026
The stadium was filled with Jordan nationals making the near 7,500-mile trek to watch their countrymen make their World Cup debut.
—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
Fellow attacker Akram Afif fell to his knees in both joy and disbelief after the final whistle blew, taking in the roars coming from his countrymen who had made the long trip to the United States.
—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
13 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
Unlike many of his countrymen who had family show them how to play the game, Ramírez was raised in a household that wasn’t obsessed with the sport — in fact, none of his immediate family members played.
—
Andy Martinez,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
Rahm is at a loss to explain the lone missing major title for Spain, considering the talent of his countrymen.
—
CBS News,
12 May 2026
The Blues are ushering in new general manager Alexander Steen, who is Swedish, and reporters have already joked with him about the club adding several of his countrymen to the roster.
—
The Athletic Nhl Staff,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
The air campaign was short, Libyan leader and longtime thorn in the side of Washington Moammar Gadhafi was dead within eight months – killed by his own countrymen.
—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countrymen
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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.
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Instead, the comparisons are with Solo, lauded as the first true Star Wars flop, earning, at best, 40% of its compatriots with a $392 million haul.
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Karelian bear dogs were originally used by Finnish and Russian peasants as watch dogs and for hunting, according to the American Kennel Club.
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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.
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According to Smith, citizens of East Florida even burned the leaders behind the Declaration of Independence in effigy.
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But Trump responded by urging Congress to adopt through legislation the restrictions against allowing the children of temporary visitors or undocumented immigrants become citizens.
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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.
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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.
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Gelje is one the world’s most renowned mountaineers, with a high-altitude career that includes summiting all 14 of the 8,000-meter peaks.
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The film follows both the mountaineers caught in the storm and the rescue teams racing against time to save them.
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Hang out with sheep, meet magicians and clowns and explore the amusement park.
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The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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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.
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“Countrymen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countrymen. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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