Definition of fellow countryman in English:
fellow countryman
nounPlural fellow countrymen
A person from one's own country.
they did not want to shoot their fellow countrymen
Example sentencesExamples
- The Oscar-winning actress will return to her native Australia to star in the movie, alongside fellow countryman Russell Crowe.
- His destination was Canada where many of his fellow countrymen had landed.
- When he joined the conversation in fluent German, they thought he was a fellow countryman and arranged for him to visit their parents.
- As a Scot in exile, I am proud that my fellow countrymen are reacting in such a mature way.
- The only occasion in the book when Mrs. Woolf implicitly recognizes past achievement, she does so not to praise it but to denigrate the lack of it among her fellow countrymen.
- Kasparov defeated his fellow countryman Bareev in the final.
- She tried to restore the image of her fellow countrymen in the eyes of her Arab interlocutor.
- It is Saint Anthony of Egypt who is credited with the founding of monasticism, along with his fellow countryman Saint Pachomius.
- Writing back home of their satisfaction with their new lives, they soon were joined by thousands of their fellow countrymen.
- He's regarded as the leader of the French DJ scene by fellow countrymen and colleagues around the world.