compatriotn.
/kəmˈpeɪtrɪət/, /kəmˈpatrɪət/, U.S. /kəmˈpeɪtriət/ 1. One who is of the same country with another; a fellow-countryman.
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brotherOE
countrymanc1390
fellow subject1549
fellow countryman1577
patriot1596
landsman1605
compatriot1611
domestic1620
paisan1940
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 499/1 With the..blood-shed of innumerable their Compatriots.
1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 107 Your Friend, Acquaintante, or Compatriot.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 21 They..are ready to think a compatriot braver..and more deserving than any foreigner.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 99 We..may well say to our compatriots that not to possess necessary knowledge is a disgrace.
2. attributive and adj. Of the same country.
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national1632
compatriot1744
compatriotic1803
synethnic1879
1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 602 To my compatriot youth I point the high example of thy sons.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 238 That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. vii. 405 He does not seem a favorite with his compatriot critics.
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