COUNTRYMAN Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

countryman

noun

ˈkən-trē-mən

Definition of countryman

as in compatriot

a person living in or originally from the same country as another met a fellow Canadian countryman while traveling in France

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as in peasant

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country though neither well-educated nor well-dressed, the countryman presented the farmers' case before the state legislature

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Recent Examples of countryman Rutter was ruled out at Coventry for the fourth match running by an injury more minor in nature than those suffered by Kostoulas’ countryman Stefanos Tzimas and Evan Ferguson. — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Tiafoe will have to adjust to the bright lights of Ashe for his quarterfinal match Tuesday versus fellow countryman Alex Michelsen. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026 Like his fellow countrymen, Marrero — a third-year computer science student at the Agrarian University of Havana — has become adept at adapting. — Juan Carlos López, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026 Now, after entering its 20th week at Number One, the track has cruised past her fellow countrymen and is the second longest-running Number One single in Billboard Hot 100 history. — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for countryman

Recent Examples of Synonyms for countryman

Noun

Alcaraz will play compatriot Jaume Munar in the semifinals, after the qualifier beat Kyrian Jacquet of France 6-4, 6-2 earlier Sunday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
Unlike his compatriot Horn, who went down in that same Cleveland game, Jackson has never been seriously hurt before.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of compatriot

Noun

Influential courtiers orbited more closely than those with less gravity, and peasants weren’t part of the picture.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Sinclair confessed that his only direct experience with the motion picture business was as the financial backer of Sergei Eisenstein’s Thunder Over Mexico (1933), a documentary ethnography of Mexican peasant life.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of peasant

Noun

Advertisement Non-citizens, including permanent legal residents, can vote in some local elections but cannot vote in federal or state elections.

— TIME Staff, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
The suspect is Omani citizen Hamam al-Hammami, multiple sources from three agencies briefed on the investigation and a diplomat in the Middle East told NBC News.

— Tom Winter, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of citizen

Noun

When Johnson was vice president and visiting Europe, there were reports filed by these British ambassadors in several countries that basically made fun of him as a hick.

— Wendy Naugle, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
So a bunch of hicks from Topeka were left up to our own devices of going down to Robert Hall and finding something that might be kind of cool.

— Devon Ivie, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of hick

Noun

Marlowe, the son of a poor Canterbury cobbler, and Shakespeare, the son of a Stratford glover and alderman, were both unlikely artistic geniuses, provincials in a nation in which social class was rigidly fixed.

— Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2025
Sanders is a Catholic priest and former Augustinian provincial in California and lives in the Augustinian community in North Park.

— Gary Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025

Definition of provincial

Noun

The brand featured a thematic clown mascot and the beloved product was sold in famously reusable glassware.

— Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2026
What followed were Zoom-inclusive mediation meetings, the revelation of tens of thousands of dollars of debt, and something about clown school.

— Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of clown

Noun

Kerry learned this the hard way after allowing Jordan to question what appeared to be a local yokel over the mysterious shooting at a Rushville high school football game.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
It was left to the feds in Boston to arrest Farwell, after Meatball’s local yokels adamantly refused to do anything other than try to broom the crime by one of their own.

— Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026

Definition of yokel

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