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countreyman

countreyman is the obsolete spelling of countryman.

Meaning of countryman

Noun

countryman (plural countrymen)

  1. Somebody from a certain country.
  2. Somebody from one's own country; a fellow countryman.
    • Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears: / I come to bury Cæſar, not to praiſe him:1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  3. A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.
    • a countryman boldly averred that "nowt but a hare had come that way"1894, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 62, page 419
    Synonyms:
    country mouse
    Antonyms:
    city mouse
  4. (Ireland) A settled person, as opposed to a traveller.
    Antonyms:
    traveller

See all 5 meanings of countryman

Forms of countreyman

pluralcountreymen

Questions about countreyman

What is countreyman the obsolete spelling of?
Countreyman is the obsolete spelling of countryman.

Words near countreyman in the dictionary

  1. countred
  2. countree
  3. countrees
  4. countres
  5. countrey
  6. countreyman
  7. countreys
  8. countrie
  9. countrier
  10. countries
  11. countries of origin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: countreyman (page history and authors); countryman (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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