Dictionary entry

Compatriot

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com‐pa″tri‐ot (?), n. [F. compatriote, LL. compatriotus; com- + patriota a native. See Patriot, and cf. Copatriot.] One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.

The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America.

Palfrey.