COUNTRYMAN

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak.

2.
n.

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.
n.

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.