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countryman

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countryman \Coun"try*man\ (k[u^]n"tr[i^]-man), n.; pl. Countrymen (-men). An inhabitant or native of a region. --Shak. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, ...

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Countryman (1982) is an independent action/adventure film directed by Dickie Jobson . It tells the story of a Jamaican fisherman whose solitude is shattered when he rescues two Americans from the wreckage of a plane crash. The fisherman, called Countryman, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a man from your own country a man who lives in the country and has country ways

Usage examples of countryman.

I remember what the German absurdist poet Kurt Tucholsky said about his countrymen and counters: they all grovel in front of them, and aspire to sit behind them.

Like so many of his countrymen, then and later, Adams both loved and disapproved of France, depending in large degree on circumstances or his mood of the moment.

Thence I will seek to regain my faraway birthland, that my countrymen too may be enriched by a hint of your glory.

She had never been a Bonapartist, yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen.

I will do you, Boswell, the justice to say, that you are the most UNSCOTTIFIED of your countrymen.

The bravest warrior was named to lead his countrymen into the field, by his example rather than by his commands.

Aden Covilham embarked in a Moorish ship for Cananor, on the Malabar coast, and after some stay in that city went to Calicut and Goa, being the first of his countrymen who had sailed on the Indian Ocean.

Considering that the total number of Germans captured in the Cameroons is only equal to the number of civilians murdered or wounded in British towns by Zeppelin bombs, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds to the German Government, one begins to wonder whether Norden and his countrymen possess any sense of proportion.

He intercepted several parties of Carpi, and other Germans, who were hastening to share the victory of their countrymen, intrusted the passes of the mountains to officers of approved valor and fidelity, repaired and strengthened the fortifications of the Danube, and exerted his utmost vigilance to oppose either the progress or the retreat of the Goths.

To enter it by the one on this side would be very risky, as the cartman and his wife will tell every one they meet that we are bound for Kwang-ngan, and some of my more violent anti-foreign countrymen are sure to start in pursuit of us.

Andre Chenier is now recognised as one of the finest masters of song who have enriched French literature, and his poems are more and more studied and admired both by his own countrymen and abroad.

The Clockmaker was evidently excited by his own story, and to indemnify himself for these remarks on his countrymen, he indulged for some time in ridiculing the Nova Scotians.

Jameson raiders supported the outlanders of the Transvaal, so also the soldiers and tribesmen of Afghanistan sympathised with and aided their countrymen and coreligionists across the border.

With the true zeal of an editor and a patriot, he devoutly justifies or excuses the characters of his countrymen.

Quite accustomed to seeing their requests for cooperation ignored in over half the states, to seeing their loaned files unaccountably become missing, to see the quarry suddenly disappear after an anonymous tip-off, the Z men worked on as best they might at a task they realized was not in accordance with the wishes of the majority of their fellow countrymen.