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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
compatriot
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I discovered I had just committed the crime of killing compatriots....
▪ I see that I enjoy an exaggerated reputation for probity among my compatriots.
▪ I was a coach, a compatriot, helping the men as they struggled with their test taking and their writing.
▪ Like his compatriot Nelson Piquet, Emerson in the cockpit is a somnolent cat.
▪ Their pal Robert Musgrave would play their long-suffering compatriot, Bob.
▪ What Zyuganov reassuringly says to nervous westerners is not what he has been saying for the past five years to his compatriots.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compatriot

Compatriot \Com*pa"tri*ot\, n. [F. compatriote, LL. compatriotus; com- + patriota a native. See Patriot, and cf. Copatriot.] One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.

The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America.
--Palfrey.

Compatriot

Compatriot \Com*pa"tri*ot\, a. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.

She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, Compatriot, zealous, hospitable, kind.
--Thomson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
compatriot

1610s, from French compatriote (16c.), from Latin compatriota, from com- "with" (see com-) + patriota "countryman" (see patriot).

Wiktionary
compatriot

a. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism. n. Somebody from one's own country.

WordNet
compatriot

n. a person from your own country

Usage examples of "compatriot".

November, 1917, are the details gathered from the Alsatian prisoners themselves of the treatment their compatriots endure in the German Army.

He resisted every effort to latch him to the tobacco teat and missed no opportunity to denounce his antismoking compatriots for the bunch of clowns they were.

And tell Banat that he will now be crew chief over six more of his compatriots.

Everyone in the city, even my brothers and my compatriots in the district cohort, seemed to secretly exult in her deathin my misery!

When my compatriots and I had opposed Fiddleback on the GalBro grounds, 1 had been offered the unlimited power of a Dark Lord.

Also, he looked upon him as a compatriot in distress, and a great bond of union between them was their mutual and virulent hatred of England and the English, which in the case of Monsieur Leblanc, who in his youth had fought at Waterloo and been acquainted with the great Emperor, was not altogether unnatural.

King of France, and his old compatriots from Poitou and the Limousin in the vassalage of his niece, the queen, had at last arrived to repair the situation and elevate the house of Poitou to that preeminence it might now easily acquire in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Barbezieux doubtless did not evince such scorn for this compatriot of Nostradamus as would have been shown in his place by a man of broader mind.

Mekrikuk said, and his small retinue of Reman compatriots followed him cautiously out into the corridor.

If it aint my old friend, compatriot, comrade in arms, and Mess Sergeant, Sgt 264 Stark.

What we needed was a selective weapon, one that would kill slugs but not men, or something that would disable humans or render unconscious without killing and thereby permit us to rescue our compatriots.

In later days--days of Filipinization--Filipino clerks and officeholders implanted in numbers have been added to their compatriots in Zamboanga town.

They encouraged him to suppose that their compatriots were no less loyal and grateful to Rome for the benefits of civilization than they themselves were.

White South Africans regularly claimed that their black compatriots were somehow unequipped to participate in the democratic process.

I am persuaded that a too exclusively porcine diet gives a bristly character to the beard and hair, which is borrowed from the animal whose tissues these stiffbearded compatriots of ours have too largely assimilated.