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countryman

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++coun·try·man /ˈkʌntrimən/ noun (plural countrymen /-mən/) [countable]  1 somebody’s countryman someone from your own country 同胞;同乡 SYN compatriot It was two years since I’d seen any fellow countrymen. 我已有两年没看到过自己的同胞了。2. COUNTRYSIDE British English a man who lives in the country rather than in a town or city 乡下人
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countrymanHe didn't look like a farmer, yet he looked a countryman.For generations the Sandovals, like millions of their fellow countrymen, had suffered from grinding poverty and deprivation.Either Mrs David has had an enormous impact on her countrymen or a major paradigm shift has occurred.President Pascal-Trouillot went on national television to urge her countrymen to vote.But his countrymen did not treat his illness as a joke.My countrymen haven't learned to cherish the old, we are too quick to tear old buildings down.It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.It dropped beyond Strath Bunker, once the haven of his storm-tossed countrymen, but speared the accompanying Hill Bunker.
coun·try·man nounChineseSyllable
someone country your own Corpus from


countryman
countryman /ˈkʌntrimən/ noun (plural countrymen /-mən/) [countable]
1. sb’s countryman someone from your own country
   SYN  compatriot:
    It was two years since I’d seen any fellow countrymen.
2. British English a man who lives in the country rather than in a town or city


coun·try·manBrE /ˈkʌntrimən/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkʌntrimən/ 🔊 noun (
plural
coun·try·men BrE /ˈkʌntrimən/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈkʌntrimən/ 🔊
)
a person born in or living in the same country as sb else 同国人;同胞;同乡 SYN compatriot The champion looks set to play his fellow countryman in the final. 看来这位冠军在决赛中会遇上他的同胞。🔊🔊a man living or born in the country, not in the town 乡下人;农村人