Dictionary entry

Countryman

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Coun″try‐man (kŭn″trĭ–man), n.; pl.Countrymen (–men). 1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak.

2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; — used with a possessive pronoun.

In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen.

2 Cor. xi. 26.

3. One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.

A simple countryman that brought her figs.

Shak.