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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 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
This is the first time in 25 years that Wrexham have been staring down at all their fellow countrymen in the three divisions of the EFL.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Like many of his countrymen, the young Afghan crossed into EU-member Poland from Belarus and managed to reach Germany, where he was arrested and then returned to Poland to have his asylum request assessed under EU laws.
—ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Hernandez was released from CECOT and sent to Venezulea along with 252 of his fellow countrymen in July 2025.
—Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
While Senesh was hailed as a hero, Kastner was reviled and assassinated by his own countrymen for negotiating with the Nazis.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Now 39, Horford embraces his role as a mentor for his younger countrymen and those coming from the rest of Latin America.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
The American crowd—perhaps, in part, because so few of their countrymen and women have risen to the very top of the sport—are also renowned as knowledgeable fans of skiers from other nations.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
On Saturday, a rally was held at Lummus Park in Miami, where many Cubans expressed their desire to travel to Cuba and support their fellow countrymen.
—Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
This is the first time in 25 years that Wrexham have been staring down at all their fellow countrymen in the three divisions of the EFL.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Like many of his countrymen, the young Afghan crossed into EU-member Poland from Belarus and managed to reach Germany, where he was arrested and then returned to Poland to have his asylum request assessed under EU laws.
—ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Hernandez was released from CECOT and sent to Venezulea along with 252 of his fellow countrymen in July 2025.
—Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
While Senesh was hailed as a hero, Kastner was reviled and assassinated by his own countrymen for negotiating with the Nazis.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Now 39, Horford embraces his role as a mentor for his younger countrymen and those coming from the rest of Latin America.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
The American crowd—perhaps, in part, because so few of their countrymen and women have risen to the very top of the sport—are also renowned as knowledgeable fans of skiers from other nations.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
On Saturday, a rally was held at Lummus Park in Miami, where many Cubans expressed their desire to travel to Cuba and support their fellow countrymen.
—Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countrymen
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While legal conservatives were developing theories of enhanced executive power, their political compatriots gained a congressional majority for the first time in decades.—
Gregg Nunziata,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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Rasmus Køstner left behind his Danish compatriots to step in as Brazil’s new flight controller.—
Andrew Rice,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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And that was to inspire, raise, and command armies of European Christians, including kings, commoners and peasants, to invade the Holy Land and free it from Muslim occupation.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
18 Apr. 2026
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His paternal grandparents were peasants in Transylvania; his maternal grandparents were also peasants, and his grandmother was illiterate.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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That includes veterans’ care, rural healthcare access, infrastructure that actually serves communities, securing supply chains, reducing prescription drug costs through transparency and competition, and reforming areas of the federal bureaucracy that waste money and frustrate citizens.—
Kevin Fixler
May 3,
Idaho Statesman,
3 May 2026
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And the data shows that this disproportionately impacts black and brown citizens.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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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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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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Some mountaineers may have regarded the retreat as a failure of nerve.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The all-new Sip Essential takes the company's longstanding personal filter straw format and halves weight, ensuring that even the lightest-traveling speed hikers and mountaineers don't find themselves up a creek without a filter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Apr. 2026
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Once completed, the $5 million acquisition will ensure the theater has a permanent home, a place where skateboarding clowns and leek-haired onions can continue to frolic and dance for decades to come.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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Plot details are being kept under wraps, though the film has been described as a four-quadrant coming-of-age comedy set in the world of funny and evil clowns.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 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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“Countrymen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countrymen. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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