This fundamental conviction is summarized in a poem by my compatriot Robert Burns: "A Man's a Man for a' that".
Source: tatoeba (6008622)
Compatriot
//kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət//
Synonyms for "compatriot" (33 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (16)
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3 entriesderived
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
128 translations across 60 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- bashkatdhetar noun (somebody from one's own country)
- njëgjakës noun (somebody from one's own country)
Arabic
4 entries- زَمِيل noun (somebody from one's own country)
- زَمِيلَة noun (somebody from one's own country)
- مُوَاطِن noun (somebody from one's own country)
- مُوَاطِنَة noun (somebody from one's own country)
Armenian
1 entries- հայրենակից noun (somebody from one's own country)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- həmvətən noun (somebody from one's own country)
- həmvətənli noun (somebody from one's own country)
- vətəndaş noun (somebody from one's own country)
- yurddaş noun (somebody from one's own country)
Belarusian
4 entries- зямля́к noun (somebody from one's own country)
- зямля́чка noun (somebody from one's own country)
- суайчы́ннік noun (somebody from one's own country)
- суайчы́нніца noun (somebody from one's own country)
Bikol Central
1 entries- kahimanwa noun (somebody from one's own country)
Breton
1 entries- kenvroad noun (somebody from one's own country)
Bulgarian
4 entries- земля́к noun (somebody from one's own country)
- земля́чка noun (somebody from one's own country)
- съоте́чественик noun (somebody from one's own country)
- съотече́ственица noun (somebody from one's own country)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 同胞 noun (somebody from one's own country)
- 國人 /国人 noun (somebody from one's own country)
Czech
2 entries- krajan noun (somebody from one's own country)
- krajanka noun (somebody from one's own country)
Danish
2 entries- landsmand noun (somebody from one's own country)
- landsmandinde noun (somebody from one's own country)
Dutch
2 entries- landgenoot noun (somebody from one's own country)
- landgenote noun (somebody from one's own country)
Esperanto
1 entries- samlandano noun (somebody from one's own country)
Estonian
1 entries- kaasmaalane noun (somebody from one's own country)
Finnish
1 entries- maanmies noun (somebody from one's own country)
French
1 entries- compatriote noun (somebody from one's own country)
Galician
1 entries- compatriota noun (somebody from one's own country)
Georgian
1 entries- თანამემამულე noun (somebody from one's own country)
German
4 entries- Landsfrau noun (somebody from one's own country)
- Landsmann noun (somebody from one's own country)
- Landsmännin noun (somebody from one's own country)
- Volksgenosse noun (somebody from one's own country)
Greek
2 entries- συμπατριώτης noun (somebody from one's own country)
- συμπατριώτισσα noun (somebody from one's own country)
Hindi
2 entries- देश-भाई noun (somebody from one's own country)
- स्वदेशवासी noun (somebody from one's own country)
Hungarian
1 entries- honfitárs noun (somebody from one's own country)
Indonesian
1 entries- kompatriot noun (somebody from one's own country)
Italian
4 entries- compatriota noun (somebody from one's own country)
- connazionale noun (somebody from one's own country)
- paesana noun (somebody from one's own country)
- paesano noun (somebody from one's own country)
Japanese
2 entries- 同国人 noun (somebody from one's own country)
- 同胞 noun (somebody from one's own country)
Kazakh
1 entries- отандас noun (somebody from one's own country)
Khmer
1 entries- មិត្តរួមជាតិ noun (somebody from one's own country)
Korean
1 entries- 동포 noun (somebody from one's own country)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- мекендеш noun (somebody from one's own country)
Lao
1 entries- ເພື່ອນຮ່ວມຊາດ noun (somebody from one's own country)
Latvian
2 entries- tautiete noun (somebody from one's own country)
- tautietis noun (somebody from one's own country)
Lithuanian
2 entries- kraštietis noun (somebody from one's own country)
- tėvynainis noun (somebody from one's own country)
Macedonian
2 entries- сонародник noun (somebody from one's own country)
- сонародничка noun (somebody from one's own country)
Manx
1 entries- co-heeragh noun (somebody from one's own country)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- hemwelatî noun (somebody from one's own country)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- landsmann noun (somebody from one's own country)
- landsmanninne noun (somebody from one's own country)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- landsmann noun (somebody from one's own country)
Old English
1 entries- ġelanda noun (somebody from one's own country)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- وطنداش noun (somebody from one's own country)
Pashto
4 entries- هموطن noun (somebody from one's own country)
- هېوادوال noun (somebody from one's own country)
- وطندار noun (somebody from one's own country)
- وطنوال noun (somebody from one's own country)
Persian
2 entries- هممیهن noun (somebody from one's own country)
- هموطن noun (somebody from one's own country)
Polish
4 entries- kompatriota noun (somebody from one's own country)
- kompatriotka noun (somebody from one's own country)
- krajan noun (somebody from one's own country)
- krajanka noun (somebody from one's own country)
Portuguese
3 entries- compatriota noun (somebody from one's own country)
- compatrício noun (somebody from one's own country)
- patrício noun (somebody from one's own country)
Romanian
2 entries- compatrioată noun (somebody from one's own country)
- compatriot noun (somebody from one's own country)
Russian
4 entries- земля́к noun (somebody from one's own country)
- земля́чка noun (somebody from one's own country)
- сооте́чественник noun (somebody from one's own country)
- сооте́чественница noun (somebody from one's own country)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sunarodnik noun (somebody from one's own country)
- sunarodnjàkinja noun (somebody from one's own country)
- zemljàkinja noun (somebody from one's own country)
- zèmljāk noun (somebody from one's own country)
Slovak
2 entries- krajan noun (somebody from one's own country)
- krajanka noun (somebody from one's own country)
Slovene
2 entries- rojak noun (somebody from one's own country)
- rojakinja noun (somebody from one's own country)
Spanish
3 entries- compatriota noun (somebody from one's own country)
- coterráneo noun (somebody from one's own country)
- paisano noun (somebody from one's own country)
Swedish
2 entries- landsman noun (somebody from one's own country)
- landsmaninna noun (somebody from one's own country)
Tagalog
1 entries- kababayan noun (somebody from one's own country)
Tajik
1 entries- ҳамватан noun (somebody from one's own country)
Tatar
2 entries- ватандаш noun (somebody from one's own country)
- илдәш noun (somebody from one's own country)
Thai
1 entries- เพื่อนร่วมชาติ noun (somebody from one's own country)
Turkish
3 entries- hemşehri noun (somebody from one's own country)
- memleketli noun (somebody from one's own country)
- vatandaş noun (somebody from one's own country)
Turkmen
1 entries- watandaş noun (somebody from one's own country)
Ukrainian
4 entries- земля́к noun (somebody from one's own country)
- земля́чка noun (somebody from one's own country)
- края́нин noun (somebody from one's own country)
- края́нка noun (somebody from one's own country)
Uzbek
1 entries- vatandosh noun (somebody from one's own country)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đồng bào noun (somebody from one's own country)
Yiddish
2 entries- דאָרפֿמאַן noun (somebody from one's own country)
- לאַנדסמאַן noun (somebody from one's own country)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
He is not willing to testify for his compatriot.
Source: tatoeba (7841353)
He is a compatriot.
Source: tatoeba (10351269)
I met a compatriot.
Source: tatoeba (10351270)
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