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Webster 1913 Edition


Compatriot

Com-pa′tri-ot

,
Noun.
[F.
compatriote
, LL.
compatriotus
;
com-
+
patriota
a native. See
Patriot
, and cf.
Copatriot
.]
One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.
The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their
compatriots
in America.
Palfrey.

Com-pa′tri-ot

,
Adj.
Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race,
Compatriot
, zealous, hospitable, kind.
Thomson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Compatriot

COMPATRIOT

,
Noun.
A fellow patriot; one of the same country.

COMPATRIOT

,
Adj.
Of the same country.

Definition 2024


compatriot

compatriot

English

Noun

compatriot (plural compatriots)

  1. Somebody from one's own country.
    • Palfrey
      the distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America
    • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport:
      However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.

Synonyms

Translations

Adjective

compatriot (comparative more compatriot, superlative most compatriot)

  1. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
    • Thomson
      She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, / Compatriot, zealous, hospitable, kind.


Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from French compatriote, Latin compatriota.

Noun

compatriot m (plural compatrioți, feminine equivalent compatrioată)

  1. compatriot

Declension