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Countryman

//ˈkʌntɹimən// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Somebody from a certain country.
  2. 2
    a man from your own country wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a man who lives in the country and has country ways wordnet
  5. 5
    A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.
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  1. 6
    A settled person, as opposed to a traveller. Ireland

Etymology

From country + -man.

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