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Definition of Compatriots
1. compatriot [n] - See also: compatriot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compatriots
Literary usage of Compatriots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... whenever your gallant compatriots have laid upon you sii obligation strong
enough to be eternally in force, something on every present occurrence should ..."
2. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"But the old distinction between injuries committed against compatriots and harm
done to foreigners remains. Even when the subject is not touched upon in the ..."
3. Report of the International Commission to Inquire Into the Causes and by International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of Intercourse and Education (1918)
"A Day with Japanese compatriots Sunday brought no sabbath of rest to the Imperial
Japanese Mission. Their American hosts, who had given them no respite on ..."
4. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"Upon the bloody field her compatriots interred her who was thereafter to be held
in dear regard as one of Scotland's noblest daughters. ..."
5. The Imperial Japanese Mission, 1917: A Record of the Reception Throughout by Kikujirō Ishii, Toyokichi Iyenaga, Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"A Day with Japanese compatriots Sunday brought no sabbath of rest to the Imperial
Japanese Mission. Their American hosts, who had given them no respite on ..."
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