Other forms: countrymen
A countryman is somebody from your own nation, or somebody who lives rurally. A fellow countryman, my countrymen, an old countryman.
The two senses are far apart and only the context tells you which, since one is about nationality and the other about mud. Friends, Romans, countrymen is the most quoted use of the first.
1nouncountrymanSomebody from your own nation, or somebody who lives rurally.
“Abroad, he was always glad to meet a fellow countryman and speak his own language.”
countryman is a person.
Proto-Indo-European
*mon-
Middle English
man
English
man
English, today
countryman
From country + -man. man comes from Middle English man. From Middle English man, from Old English mann (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic mann, from Proto-Germanic mann- (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European mon- (“human being, man”). a doublet of mann and Manu. 1
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