COUNTRYMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does countryman mean? 

• COUNTRYMAN (noun)
  The noun COUNTRYMAN has 2 senses:

1. a man from your own country

2. a man who lives in the country and has country ways

  Familiarity information: COUNTRYMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTRYMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man from your own country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("countryman" is a kind of...):

compatriot (a person from your own country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A man who lives in the country and has country ways

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

countryman; ruralist

Hypernyms ("countryman" is a kind of...):

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

Instance hyponyms:

Philemon ((Greek mythology) a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety)

 Context examples 

I knew that the facts were true, but could I help to make a jury of countrymen believe so fantastic a story?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have a liking for that north countryman,” he remarked presently.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Exactly," said Summerlee. "A fellow-countryman in a far land."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Countryman Lawrence Cherono won the men's division.

(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)

When the countryman saw so much money, he said, “I will agree to your proposal.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The west-countryman smiled, and shook himself like a dog from the water as with a stealthy step he came back to the centre of the ring, where his man was still standing.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘By your language, stranger, I suppose you are my countryman; are you French?’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at least a fellow-countryman.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Who are you, and how do you get my name so pat?” the countryman answered, with a suspicious flash of a pair of cunning eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For he assured me, that if the secret should be discovered by my countrymen the Dutch, they would cut my throat in the voyage.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)