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

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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

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Recent Examples of countrymen All call for their countrymen to fight against tyranny. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026 Athletes find a new gear when playing in front of throngs of chanting countrymen. — Michael Morris, Time, 1 July 2026 Haaland’s fellow countrymen have also been making the rounds. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 June 2026 Pulisic stayed on the shelf for the subsequent match with Australia, but his countrymen handled business all the same. — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 June 2026 Alas, the actor did not foresee his countrymen losing to Morocco 1-0 on June 19, but took the L in stride. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026 The stadium was filled with Jordan nationals making the near 7,500-mile trek to watch their countrymen make their World Cup debut. — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026 Before matches along the East Coast, thousands of fans from France, England, Panama, Argentina and other countries have filled Times Square to sing, cheer and wave flags with their countrymen and countrywomen. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 5 July 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countrymen
  1. compatriots
  2. peasants
  3. citizens
  4. provincials
  5. hicks
  6. mountaineers
  7. clowns
  8. yokels
Noun
  • Since 2023, Pegula is an impressive 33-3 against her compatriots.
    — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • In a city whose most iconic statue is a testament to its openness to newcomers, teams from Cape Verde to Paraguay to Congo found local fans and international visitors found compatriots.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of compatriots
Noun
  • Ong cited case studies by the neuropsychologist Alexander Luria, who traveled to remote villages in Uzbekistan and Kirghizia in the 1930s, when peasants were starting to receive rudimentary reading and writing instruction.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Andrei has taken up farming, and Miles eagerly joins him, hoping that the backbreaking work of scything will enhance his understanding of the Russian peasants he’s supposed to be writing about.
    — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026
Definition of peasants
Noun
  • Fulton County will continue to do all that is needed to assure Georgia citizens that our election process is fair and proper and to show that the attacks against it are baseless.
    — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • These clinical trials could provide a glimpse of hope for the citizens of the DRC that are battling one of the most serious Ebola outbreaks on record.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of citizens
Noun
  • 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
Definition of provincials
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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
Definition of hicks
Noun
  • Only, perhaps, a constitutional aversion to thinking ill of mountaineers.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Built in 1879 by enterprising townsfolk, the Zermatterhof has been welcoming royalty, celebrities, and intrepid mountaineers for nearly a century and a half.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026
Definition of mountaineers
Noun
  • Hang out with sheep, meet magicians and clowns and explore the amusement park.
    — Cole Premo, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Definition of clowns
Noun
  • 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
Definition of yokels

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