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countryman

noun as in person from one's country

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The document with the official result arrived the next day and little by little I saw how my countrymen who had obtained asylum were released, even one whose hearing was the same day as mine without a lawyer and without evidence.

On the day of his departure, a fellow countryman said goodbye with tears in his eyes and we were all very happy for little Piké, because he had won a nine-month battle.

I subject my countrymen to a second interrogation when they return, trying to calm my terror.

The ques­tion was how to attain it without compromising their countrymen.

Few players have held themselves together under such scrutiny and for such symbolic stakes in the eyes of their countrymen.

She later went on to appear (from 2000 to 2003) in the series Clarissa and the Countryman, with Johnny Scott.

In Charlie Countryman, Evan Rachel Wood is Gabi, the girl you meet for two seconds and instantly fall for.

“The human species is a deeply flawed biological product”—so wrote my countryman Arthur Koestler.

But, of course, this "other" is most often anything but; it is actually friend, neighbor and countryman.

Urs Fischer, the young contemporary artist and fellow countryman, stands apart.

Every year since then the Chinese have gathered in the city and remembered the day when their countryman's life was saved.

Went to work in my own way; was a countryman just come into a snug bit of inheritance, looking out for a corner of land.

You are only an honest countryman wandering amid a crowd of courtiers—virtue in danger amid a myriad of vices.

Her face, notwithstanding its emaciation, reminded him of Latta, the wife of his friend and fellow-countryman Schmidt.

In advance, with an officer, was a man attired in the dress of a countryman, who pointed in the direction of the cottage.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to countryman, such as: compatriot, landsman, national, and fellow citizen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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