countryman

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The successor of your countryman was a Russian nobleman, succeeded in his turn by a Polish Jew, who was ruined and discarded within three months.

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  1. noun A person from one's own country; a compatriot.
  2. noun A native or inhabitant of a particular country.
  3. noun A man who lives in the country or has country ways.

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  • But another fellow-countryman, an African from Thagaste, Evodius, formerly a clerk in the Ministry of the Interior, came to join the small group of new converts. —  Saint Augustin
  • Earlier in camp, 39-year-old veteran Takashi Saito marveled at how his countryman was adapting to his new surroundings.
  • But I could not make it my business to denounce a fellow-countryman, and a man who had once called himself my friend, unless I could proceed on actual certainty. —  In Direst Peril
  • He remarked that our countryman was a heretic--that the priests considered that he had died out of the pale of their true Church like a dog, and that like a dog he must be buried Does the holy religion of Christ teach you thus to treat your enemies?" —  Hurricane Hurry
  • Allan Ramsay has laid a complaint, before the mayor, that his countryman has been attacked by a band of ruffians, and has been either killed or carried off by them. —  A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
 

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neighbors ·  follower ·  colleague ·  peasant ·  nobleman ·  comrade ·  patriot ·  citizen ·  settler ·  cousin ·  kinsman ·  foreigner

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countryman:   countrymen
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Etymologies (1)

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  1. from Middle English contraiman, cuntreman; from country + man.
 

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/ˈkəntrɪmən/
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