as in citizens
a person living in or originally from the same country as another
during the time he was an American in Paris he felt a special kinship with his fellow landsmen
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Noun
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Some citizens in countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Turkey are already leveraging bitcoin as a store of value to protect against hyperinflation.—
Alex Pron,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025 -
The Venezuelan president launched his own large-large military drills in La Orchilla Island in the Caribbean and is rallying thousands of citizens to help defy Washington.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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The new queen was crowned by Miss Universe Nicaragua 2024, Geyssell García, after competing with 12 compatriots who represented the departments and autonomous regions of the country.—
Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Sadly, the midnight movie magic that befell me and my Long Treadmill compatriots will be gone from our city by then.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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Like Julius Caesar, Aeneas arrives on Italian soil with an army, and makes war on the native inhabitants—his own future countrymen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Many Iranians who hate their government nonetheless cheered the end of the war, and decried the senseless death of their countrymen at the hands of a faraway government whose concern for Iranian life was open to doubt.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Landsmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landsmen. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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