Definition of "countryman" []

• A person from one's own country; a compatriot. (noun)
• A native or inhabitant of a particular country. (noun)
• A man who lives in the country or has country ways. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Adil Kaouch tried and failed to lift his countryman from the track, and El Guerrouj fell flat on his back and cried some more."
• "And if Läckberg and her supporters have their way, she'll soon be as well known as her countryman, Stieg Larsson."
• "I have ordered this book by Siebert on country and city life, a subject that always interests me I am generally thought of as a countryman, which is true enough, but I have lived my life either on dirt roads or in big city apartments!"