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- Dictionarycoun·try·man/ˈkəntrēmən/
noun
- 1. a person from the same country as someone else: "they trust a fellow countryman" Similar
- 2. a man living or born in a rural area: "he was a complete countryman, with a pronounced affinity with nature" Similar
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The meaning of COUNTRYMAN is an inhabitant or native of a specified country. How to use countryman in a sentence.
Countryman means a man or person from your own country or from the countryside. Learn how to use this word in different contexts and see synonyms and translations.
COUNTRYMAN meaning: 1. a man or person from your own country: 2. a man or person who lives in or who comes from the…. Learn more.
countryman in British English. (ˈkʌntrɪmən ) or feminine countrywoman. noun Word forms: plural -men or -women. 1. a person who lives in the country. 2. a person from a particular country or from one's own country (esp in the phrase fellow countryman) Gender-neutral form: compatriot. Collins English Dictionary.
noun. , plural coun·try·men. a native or inhabitant of one's own country. Synonyms: landsman, compatriot. Antonyms: foreigner. a native or inhabitant of a particular region. a person who lives in the country. Synonyms: peasant, farmer, rustic. an unsophisticated person, as one who lives in or comes from a rural area; rustic. countryman.
a man living or born in the country, not in the town. Even after thirty years living in the country, I fear I am not a proper countryman. I don’t farm for a living or go tramping across drenched fields, gun in hand. See countryman in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: countryman.
IPA guide. Other forms: countrymen. Definitions of countryman. noun. a man from your own country. see more. noun. a man who lives in the country and has country ways. synonyms: ruralist.
