Synonyms of countrymen

countrymen

noun

plural of countryman

1

as in compatriots

a person living in or originally from the same country as another

met a fellow Canadian countryman while traveling in France

Synonyms & Similar Words

• compatriots
• citizens
• nationals
• landsmen
• patriots
• nationalists
• countrywomen
• residents
• natives
• aborigines
• subjects

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• immigrants
• foreigners
• aliens
• outsiders

2

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• peasants
• provincials
• rustics
• hicks
• mountaineers
• clowns
• yokels
• bumpkins
• rubes
• hayseed
• churls
• clodhoppers
• cornballs
• boors
• greenhorns
• chawbacons
• peons
• louts
• oafs
• clods
• backwoodsmen
• gawks
• tenderfeet

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cosmopolitans
• sophisticates
• suburbanites
• urbanites
• cosmopolites
• slickers
• smoothies
• metropolitans

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of countrymen

He was haunted by Switzerland’s position of neutrality during the fight against the Nazis, and he was troubled by the accommodations his prosperous countrymen were willing to make after the war to maintain their comfortable detachment. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Cardiff, meanwhile, finished 19th, only avoiding relegation on goal difference, yet emerged unbeaten against their countrymen with two victories and two draws. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Like his fellow countrymen, Marrero — a third-year computer science student at the Agrarian University of Havana — has become adept at adapting. — Juan Carlos López, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026

He’s particularly drawn to episodes that are discomforting for his countrymen—the Dreyfus Affair, and, a recent obsession, French accommodation in Nazi rule during the Occupation, a national embarrassment that was long passed over in silence. — David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Now, after entering its 20th week at Number One, the track has cruised past her fellow countrymen and is the second longest-running Number One single in Billboard Hot 100 history. — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026

The Khmer Rouge group that ruled Cambodia from 1975–79 was accused of genocide for causing the deaths of so many of their countrymen from executions, starvation, and lack of medical care due to its radical policies. — ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026

Disliked, even hated, by millions of his countrymen, and despised by possibly billions abroad, Trump has a target on his back. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026

And his space adventure became a fleeting moment of hope just as Afghanistan descended into civil war, forcing millions of his countrymen and countrywomen into exile. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026