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Definition of Countryman

1. Noun. A man from your own country.

2. Noun. A man who lives in the country and has country ways.

Definition of Countryman

1. n. An inhabitant or native of a region.

Definition of Countryman

1. Noun. Somebody from a certain country. ¹

2. Noun. Somebody from one's own country. ¹

3. Noun. country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits ¹

4. Noun. (Irish traveler) a settled person, as opposed to a traveller ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Countryman

1. [n COUNTRYMEN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Countryman

country park country parks country pop country rock country seat country store country wife countryfied countryfies countryfy

countryfying countryish countryless countrylike countrymade countryman (current term) countrymate countrymates countrymen countrypeople

countryperson countrypersons countrypolitan countryseat countryseats countryship countryside countrysides countrywide countrywoman

Literary usage of Countryman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"THE BUFFOON AND THE countryman AT a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the ... But a countryman who stood by said: " Call that a pig's squeak! ..."

2. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"countryman, that is a man of the country, or one belonging to the country, is the general term applicable to all inhabiting the country, in distinction from ..."

3. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1858)
"A. countryman in Trouble.—Dolphins.—Succession of Volcanoes —Gulf of Nicoya.—Harbour of Caldera.—Another countryman. ..."

4. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"I prove my countryman Plummer's Will.1 Give Madam Mico Administration at her ... He is termed by Sewall his countryman, which would lead us to infer that ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1785)
"A Dialogue between a countryman^ and a Clergyman from London, who took his Organ to a Country Village, to fet off the ..."

6. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"[William A. countryman, editor and statistician; born New Haven, Conn., July, 1852; educated in private schools, literary editor of the Hartford Post, 1883; ..."

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