Crossword clues for countryman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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, in perils by mine own countrymen.
--2 Cor. xi. 26. -
One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.
A simple countryman that brought her figs.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Somebody from a certain country. 2 Somebody from one's own country. 3 country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits 4 (context Irish traveller English) a settled person, as opposed to a traveller
WordNet
n. a man from your own country
a man who lives in the country and has country ways
Wikipedia
Countryman is an album by Willie Nelson. Ten years in the making since 1995, Nelson's first ever reggae album merges the gospel and spirit found in both country and reggae. It was released on CD format on August 2, 2005 by the Lost Highway label. Nelson made two videos for this album " The Harder They Come" and "I'm a Worried Man" 1 both videos were filmed in Jamaica.
Countryman may refer to:
- Countryman (surname)
- Operation Countryman an investigation into police corruption in the Greater London area.
- Countryman (film), a motion picture set in Jamaica
- Countryman (album), an album by Willie Nelson
- Countryman (newspaper), a regional newspaper in Western Australia
- Countryman (magazine), a British magazine
- Countryman (DJ Skitz album), an album by DJ Skitz
- Countryman, a brand of microphones
- Mini Countryman, an automobile
Countryman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Dana Countryman (born 1954), American electronic musician
- Edward Countryman, American historian
- Robbie Countryman, American television director
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, is hurled into a political plot by the dangerous Colonel Sinclair. Countryman uses his knowledge of the terrain and his innate combat skills to survive.
The film was shot in Jamaica and featured a reggae soundtrack performed by Lee "Scratch" Perry and Bob Marley & the Wailers. It was produced by Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and has become a cult classic.
Countryman magazine was founded in 1927 by J. W. Robertson Scott, who edited it from his office in Idbury in rural Oxfordshire for the first 21 years. He was succeeded as editor by John Cripps, son of Stafford Cripps. It is now edited by Mark Whitley at offices in Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire. It was published quarterly until the 1990s, when it became a bimonthly. It is now a monthly, with a circulation of about 23,000.
In the 1950s it described itself as "A quarterly non-party review and miscellany of rural life and work for the English-speaking world". Today its website says: "Countryman focuses on the rural issues of today, and tomorrow, as well as including features on the people, places, history and wildlife that make the British countryside so special."
In the Winter 1948 issue Field Marshal Wavell wrote a tribute in verse to the magazine's eclecticism, one stanza of which reads:
The ethics of " bundling", the methods of trundling
A wheelbarrow, trolley or pram,
Dogs, badgers and sheep, a girl chimney-sweep,
The way to make strawberry jam;
Dunmow and its flitches, the trial of witches,
The somnambulation of wigeon,
You’ll find them all here, with discourses on beer
And maternal lactation in pigeon.
To mark the magazine's 80th birthday, Words from the Countryman, edited by Valerie Porter, a selection of writing from the magazine, along with brief historical notes, was published in 2007. Porter notes that, whereas Countryman had begun as a magazine principally for and about the farmer and others who live in the country, from the early 1980s until recently it often tended to favour the views of urban-dwellers who take their leisure in the country, many of whom are antagonistic to farmers.
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.