countryman
Speech parts
1. countryman - Noun
2. Countryman - Proper noun
Meaning
An inhabitant or native of a region.
One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun.
One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.
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Daily Star reports that the attacker wasn't satisfied with the way Pep deployed him at Camp Nou - hence, the reason his countryman failed to make the shortlist.
England's Chris Paisley finished three shots out of the play-off after a closing 68, one ahead of countryman Marcus Armitage and Scotland's Scott Jamieson.
Ivanov, who joined sumo two years after his countryman, was the polar opposite in terms of body composition.
While the Zifa delegation was barred from the meeting, their countryman and Zimbabwe Olympic Committee medical commissioner Nicholas Munyonga was part of it as he had been invited to make a presentation on anti-doping.
If someone slays a foreign priest, he will pay as much as for a fellow countryman.
Billingsley, who has experience with New Zealand youth national teams, has a fellow countryman in Loons center back Michael Boxall.