compatriot
/kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/
compatriot noun: somebody from one's own country.
Noun
compatriot (plural compatriots)
- 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...1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
- the distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America1858, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England
- Synonyms:
- fellow citizen, countryperson
Adjective
compatriot (comparative more compatriot, superlative most compatriot)
- 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, […]1736, [James] Thomson, The Prospect: Being the Fifth Part of Liberty. A Poem, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 8, lines 71–72
compatriot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
compatriot in Hindi
- somebody from one's own country
- स्वदेशवासी svadeśvāsī, देश-भाई deś-bhāī, हमवतन hamvatan
compatriot in Tamil
- ஒரே நாட்டினர், சகதேசி
compatriot in Urdu
- somebody from one's own country
- ہَم وَطَن ham vatan, گِرائِیں girāī̃, دیش بھائی deś bhāī
compatriot in Bengali
- somebody from one's own country
- স্বদেশবাসী śodeśbaśi
More languagesFewer languages
- compatriot in Malayalam
- ഒരേ നാട്ടുകാരൻ, സ്വദേശി, ഒരേ ദേശക്കാരൻ
- compatriot in Kannada
- ಒನ್ನಾಡಿಗ
- compatriot in Pashto
- هموطن hamwatán, هېوادوال hewādwā́l, وطندار, وطنوال watanwãl
- compatriot in Tagalog
- kababayan
- compatriot in Arabic
- مُوَاطِن muwāṭin, مُوَاطِنَة muwāṭina, زَمِيل zamīl, زَمِيلَة zamīla
- compatriot in Indonesian
- kompatriot
- compatriot in Thai
- เพื่อนร่วมชาติ pʉ̂ʉan-rûuam-châat
- compatriot in Vietnamese
- đồng bào
- compatriot in Myanmar
- တိုင်းရင်းသား tuing:rang:sa:, တိုင်းရင်းသူ tuing:rang:su, နိုင်ငံသားချင်း nuingngamsa:hkyang:
Examples of compatriot in a sentence
- They took up the cry of their oppressed compatriots.
- On the streets of Berlin, Ruth and her compatriots vacillated "between hope and despair."
- This recipe uses Metaxa, the softly caramelly Greek brandy, together with its compatriot, aniseedy ouzo, for a thoroughly Mediterranean experience.
Synonyms of compatriot
Forms of compatriot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | compatriots |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more compatriot |
| superlative | most compatriot |
Origin of compatriot
Borrowed from French compatriote, itself borrowed from Latin compatriota. By surface analysis, com- + patriot. Displaced native Old English ġelanda.
Words formed from compatriot
Questions about compatriot
- What does compatriot mean?
- Compatriot means somebody from one's own country.
- What is compatriot in Hindi?
- Compatriot in Hindi is स्वदेशवासी (svadeśvāsī), देश-भाई (deś-bhāī), हमवतन (hamvatan). See Compatriot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is compatriot?
- Compatriot can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce compatriot?
- Compatriot is pronounced /kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/.
- What is the plural of compatriot?
- The plural of compatriot is compatriots.
Words near compatriot in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: compatriot (page history and authors); compatriot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compatriot (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compatriot (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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