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US
/ˈkəntɹimən/
]
[ UK /kˈʌntɹɪmən/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌntɹɪmən/ ]
NOUN
- a man from your own country
- a man who lives in the country and has country ways
How To Use countryman In A Sentence
- Even after thirty years living in the country, I fear I am not a proper countryman. I don't farm for a living or go tramping across drenched fields, gun in hand.
- But it seems as he was taken with the gang, one hard-mouthed countryman swore home to him, and they were like to have others come in according to the publication they had made; so that they expected more evidence against him, and for that reason he was kept in hold. Moll Flanders
- The Countryman debuts some tasteful updates to the styling language—the strake at the front fender, the turned-down corners of the of the grille—but at a glance, the Countryman looks like a Mini Cooper S that was Xeroxed at 130%. What Part of 'Mini' Did You Not Grasp, BMW?
- As the old countryman would say: ‘Well, it's better than nowt, but it's nowhere near mother's milk.’
- He was a pleasant and genial countryman whose neighbourly qualities were much to the fore throughout his life.
- At first, when I was unaware of this interest of his in my affairs, he had to divine my intentions, as, for instance, at Papeete, when I contemplated going partners with a knavish fellow-countryman on a guano venture. THE HEATHEN
- Watson is rangier than his countryman, a spindly mass of nervous energy and fast-twitch muscles. Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson add power to USA's Ryder Cup bid
- His elusive palette of muddy plums, acidic yellows and sunrise oranges appears to have been influenced by his countryman Per Kirkeby, with whom he shares a wintry, dulled light.
- Farmer Robert Cunyngham Brown is a grey-haired countryman who owns both Graveland and Otterswick and has a family pedigree on the island that stretches back hundreds of years.
- To take the gold, Carter engaged in a head-to-head duel with his countryman, world champion Bevan Docherty.