countrywomannoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkʌn.triˌwʊm.ən/us/ˈkʌn.triˌwʊm.ən/plural -women uk/-wɪmɪn/usa woman from your own country:
On the train I got into conversation with a fellow countrywoman.
UK a woman who lives in or who comes from the countryside and not a town
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation
- Afro
- countrywide
- homegrown
- homeland
- internation
- land
- mother country
- motherland
- nation-state
- national
- nationwide
- offshore
- soil
- South Sudan
- state
- state-controlled
- statehood
- stateless
- subject
- superpower
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Towns & regions: the countryside
Examples from literature
- English countrywomen have pretty strong nerves.
- If he'd married one of his own countrywomen, the other things wouldn't have been equal.
- Really, major, you don't seem to understand this boasted liberty of your own countrywoman.
- We do not even know whether she is a countrywoman of ours, or an Englishwoman, or a German.
- What, little Mary turned Tory on my hands?—This will be fine news for our countrywoman to carry down to Scotland!