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COUNTRYMAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man from your own country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("countryman" is a kind of...):

compatriot (a person from your own country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A man who lives in the country and has country ways

Synonyms:

countryman; ruralist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("countryman" is a kind of...):

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

Instance hyponyms:

Philemon ((Greek mythology) a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety)

Credits

 Context examples: 

You do not know any more about Spencer than do his own countrymen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He never spoke of himself, and no one ever knew that in his native city he had been a man much honored and esteemed for learning and integrity, till a countryman came to see him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He lived with a faithful servant, a countryman of his own, who looked after all his needs.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen the low countryman in arms, and I have nought to say against him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the countryman stopped his fiddle, and left the miser to take his place at the gallows.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At the end of the fifth round the odds were four to one, and the west-countrymen were riotous in their exultation.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Not only a fellow-countryman, my good sir," said Challenger, "but also, if I may be allowed to enlarge your simile, an ally of the first value. This beech tree will be our saviour."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His excellency observed my countenance to clear up; he told me, with a sigh, that there his estate began, and would continue the same, till we should come to his house: that his countrymen ridiculed and despised him, for managing his affairs no better, and for setting so ill an example to the kingdom; which, however, was followed by very few, such as were old, and wilful, and weak like himself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had once been a skilful sculptor and had earned an honest living, but he had taken to evil courses and had twice already been in jail—once for a petty theft, and once, as we had already heard, for stabbing a fellow-countryman.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Presently two countrymen passed by, but pausing near the cottage, they entered into conversation, using violent gesticulations; but I did not understand what they said, as they spoke the language of the country, which differed from that of my protectors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)