countryman Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a man from your own country
  2. noun a man who lives in the country and has country ways
    ruralist.

WordNet

Coun"try*man noun
Wordforms
plural Countrymen
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913