1
as in compatriot
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 peasant
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 countryman
The other senior central defenders are Reis’s fellow countryman Igor Julio, 26, and 24-year-old Dutch international Jan Paul van Hecke.
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Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Hamada’s death, paradoxically, had provided some of his countrymen with a first breath of freedom.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The future that Zelensky and many of his countrymen have in mind is one in which Russia is defeated.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 19 Jan. 2025
Having Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, signed last winter for 12 years and $325 million, already in the rotation means Sasaki would have the comfort of countrymen in the locker room.
—Chuck Murr, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Hamada’s death, paradoxically, had provided some of his countrymen with a first breath of freedom.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The future that Zelensky and many of his countrymen have in mind is one in which Russia is defeated.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 19 Jan. 2025
Having Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, signed last winter for 12 years and $325 million, already in the rotation means Sasaki would have the comfort of countrymen in the locker room.
—Chuck Murr, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for countryman
Noun
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That suggested to many Israelis that there was little hope for Bibas and her two children, red-haired boys whose images are nearly as familiar to compatriots as family photos.—
Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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The government of Colombia, under the directive of President Gustavo Petro, has the presidential plane ready to facilitate the return of the compatriots who were to arrive today.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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The vast majority were men—rural peasants from Guangdong Province, situated on the southeast coast of China, near Hong Kong.—
Jane Hu,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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The peewee population interacted with each other in various settings and included bocce bowlers, bare-bottomed peasants, baguette bakers, blind men, the mustachioed mayor, female fishmongers, dunce hat-wearing schoolboys, snail saleswomen, and gobs more characters.—
gqlshare,
Orange County Register,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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When fear, exhaustion, or resignation crowds out citizens’ commitment to democracy, emergent authoritarianism begins to take root.—
STEVEN LEVITSKY,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
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By imposing tariffs, the U.S. would be taxing its own citizens, raising costs for business, and fueling inflation.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Sorrentino may also be exorcising some conflicting feelings about his birthplace, which is portrayed as a vulgar, crude place populated by crooks and hicks and photographed like its paradise.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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In first grade, when a teacher called him a hick, Ciotti threw an inkwell at her.—
D. T. Max,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Several vessels collided, terrifying the uninitiated landsmen on board.—
David Grann,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2023
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Though as a Black man Gould had only limited opportunities for advancement, he was later promoted to landsman and then wardroom steward.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 June 2022
Noun
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This removed one of the last obstacles preventing poor provincials from governing the empire.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
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While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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While the aforementioned gamer creep threatens to rob us of silly confrontational television, there’s been one thing stopping them and making season three entertaining: The Traitors picked this season are dysfunctional clowns.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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There was a good joke buried in that conceit: maybe only clowns spend as much time in the makeup chair as the drag artists that have provided Roan the inspiration for her primary look.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Florida yokels versus the elite Hollywood movie-star kind of group.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 July 2024
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Ben’s refusal to stand down for a middle-aged white man seeking to wrest power from him was radical, as was the film’s ending, in which the hero was shot by yokels failing to distinguish him from the zombies previously described as animals.—
Richard Newby,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2024
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“Countryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countryman. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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