countryman

IPA: kˈʌntrimʌn

noun

  • Somebody from a certain country.
  • Somebody from one's own country; a fellow countryman; compatriot.
  • A country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.
  • (Ireland, traveller) A settled person, as opposed to a traveller.
  • A surname.
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Examples of "countryman" in Sentences

  • I have to live as a small retired countryman, which is not very amusing.
  • And if Läckberg and her supporters have their way, she'll soon be as well known as her countryman, Stieg Larsson.
  • The story convicts one so-called countryman of murder and another of sabotaging the truck so the illegal aliens die.
  • Adil Kaouch tried and failed to lift his countryman from the track, and El Guerrouj fell flat on his back and cried some more.
  • I have not slept nor lain down all night, on account of the matter of our young countryman, which is one of the most unfortunate in the world.
  • The successor of your countryman was a Russian nobleman, succeeded in his turn by a Polish Jew, who was ruined and discarded within three months.
  • Given that the last Pope, probably recalling his countryman Nicolaus Copernicus, gave a belated but none-the-less necessary pardon of Galileo Galilei, it makes me wonder how far back he wishes to turn the calendar.
  • I have ordered this book by Siebert on country and city life, a subject that always interests me I am generally thought of as a countryman, which is true enough, but I have lived my life either on dirt roads or in big city apartments!

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