compatriot
noun
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Pronunciation: /kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/ / /kəmˈpætɹi.ət/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French compatriote, itself borrowed from Latin compatriota. By surface analysis, com- + patriot. Displaced native Old English ġelanda.
- Of the same country; especially, being countrymen and having a common sentiment of patriotism.
“She [Britain] rears to Freedom an undaunted Race: / Compatriot zealous, hoſpitable, kind, […]”
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French compatriote, itself borrowed from Latin compatriota. By surface analysis, com- + patriot. Displaced native Old English ġelanda.
- Somebody from one's own country.
“And this, perhaps, might have been anticipated; for, as varieties, in order to become in any degree permanent, necessarily have to struggle with the other inhabitants of the country, the species which are already dominant will be the most likely to yield offspring which, though in some slight degree modified, will still inherit those advantages that enabled their parents to become dominant over their compatriots.”
“the distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America”