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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
All call for their countrymen to fight against tyranny.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
The Republic’s first decades were shaped by the rivalry between the British and French empires, and George Washington used his farewell address to warn his countrymen against permanent foreign entanglements.
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Ian Bremmer,
Time,
25 June 2026
This block featured Argentina’s first game of the tournament, played at Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Stadium), and thousands who didn’t buy tickets to the game flocked to watch it at the festival with their fellow countrymen.
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Sophia Lindberg,
Kansas City Star,
22 June 2026
Messi’s countryman and Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Manu Ginobili was in attendance and shown on the video screen.
—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 June 2026
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
The Republic’s first decades were shaped by the rivalry between the British and French empires, and George Washington used his farewell address to warn his countrymen against permanent foreign entanglements.
—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
25 June 2026
This block featured Argentina’s first game of the tournament, played at Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Stadium), and thousands who didn’t buy tickets to the game flocked to watch it at the festival with their fellow countrymen.
—
Sophia Lindberg,
Kansas City Star,
22 June 2026
Messi’s countryman and Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Manu Ginobili was in attendance and shown on the video screen.
—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for countryman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countryman
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On Hansi Flick’s watch, Szczesny and Garcia are both ahead of the manager’s compatriot.
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Nathan Saliba is stepping up today for Canada after the devastating injury to compatriot Ismaël Koné earlier this group stage.
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The back-to-the-land aesthetic of peasant skirts, head scarves, and florals seems to seep into fashion at this time of year, but a distinctly folk vibe is now taking over interiors too.
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Most urban Russians in those days were little more than one generation removed from their peasant roots, so just about everyone remembered the relevant skills.
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Kaskaskia’s dwindling number of citizens moved inland, to the center of the island.
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To the extent that their fellow-citizens refer to them at all, our government functionaries are perceived not as active agents of change but as inert, self-protecting obstructions.
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When Johnson was vice president and visiting Europe, there were reports filed by these British ambassadors in several countries that basically made fun of him as a hick.
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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.
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Several vessels collided, terrifying the uninitiated landsmen on board.
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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.
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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.
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Sanders is a Catholic priest and former Augustinian provincial in California and lives in the Augustinian community in North Park.
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The group demonstrated near the Washington Monument and was met by a few counter protestors, one of which played clown music throughout the majority of the demonstration.
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But many did not, as the 1981 episodes tell the grim tale of a young girl named Sylvia (Barash), who is raped by a stranger wearing a horrifying clown mask.
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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.
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“Countryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countryman. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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