countryman

noun

ˈkən-trē-mən How to pronounce countryman (audio)
Definition of countrymannext
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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2
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 One of his countrymen, Javier Giner, also arrives at the San Sebastián Film Festival with his first movie. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026 He was haunted by Switzerland’s position of neutrality during the fight against the Nazis, and he was troubled by the accommodations his prosperous countrymen were willing to make after the war to maintain their comfortable detachment. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Tiafoe will have to adjust to the bright lights of Ashe for his quarterfinal match Tuesday versus fellow countryman Alex Michelsen. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026 Like his fellow countrymen, Marrero — a third-year computer science student at the Agrarian University of Havana — has become adept at adapting. — Juan Carlos López, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for countryman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countryman
  1. compatriot
  2. peasant
  3. citizen
  4. hick
  5. landsman
  6. provincial
  7. clown
  8. yokel
Noun
  • Like Biden, in this cycle Lula found that a disconcerting number of his compatriots were unmoved by his calls to save democracy from those who would seek to undermine it—or didn’t buy into his rhetoric in the first place.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Crystal also praised Short while discussing his SNL compatriots.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of compatriot
Noun
  • Happy peasants, miserable millionaires Graham first spotted the pattern in China.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In the shadow on the ground, your back bowed out unflatteringly, like a peasant’s hump.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of peasant
Noun
  • Every summer, the state plays host to the largest, longest-running citizen bike tour in the world.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Those convicted of lying on applications to become American citizens face up to a decade.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of citizen
Noun
  • 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.
    — Wendy Naugle, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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 hick
Noun
  • Several vessels collided, terrifying the uninitiated landsmen on board.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This seems more like a landsman’s longing, for rain to fall on fields and fertilise them.
    — The Economist, The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
Definition of landsman
Noun
  • The district elected a Western Canada Concept separatist in a 1982 provincial by-election.
    — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • 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 provincial
Noun
  • That’s not to jinx the master clown who’s currently doddering around in Argan’s shoes on Broadway.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In several descriptions of these amateur events, including some of his own, Hemingway sounds less like a matador than a rodeo clown.
    — Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of clown
Noun
  • Kerry learned this the hard way after allowing Jordan to question what appeared to be a local yokel over the mysterious shooting at a Rushville high school football game.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
  • 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
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“Countryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countryman. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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