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
• hayseeds
• clowns
• yokels
• bumpkins
• rubes
• hayseed
• churls
• clodhoppers
• boors
• cornballs
• greenhorns
• chawbacons
• peons
• gawks
• louts
• oafs
• clods
• peones
• backwoodsmen
• tenderfeet
• tenderfoots

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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