Countryman
//ˈkʌntɹimən// name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Somebody from a certain country.
- 2 a man from your own country wordnet
- 3 Somebody from one's own country; a fellow countryman.
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears: / I come to bury Cæſar, not to praiſe him:"
- 4 a man who lives in the country and has country ways wordnet
- 5 A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.
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- 6 A settled person, as opposed to a traveller. Ireland
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"The Prince did not know what to believe, and presently a very aged countryman spake to him thus:— "May it please your royal Highness, more than fifty years since I heard from my father that there was then in this castle the most beautiful princess that was ever seen; that she must sleep there a hundred years, and that she should be waked by a king's son, for whom she was reserved.""
Etymology
From country + -man.
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