compatriot

Borrowed from French compatriote, itself borrowed from Latin compatriota. By surface analysis, com- +‎ patriot. Displaced native Old English ġelanda.

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/, /kəmˈpætɹi.ət/

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compatriot (plural compatriots)

1. Somebody from one's own country.

   Synonyms: fellow citizen, countryperson

   Hyponyms: countryman, countrywoman

   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     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.

   • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England:

     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^[1], archived from the original on 23 August 2025:

     However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.

compatriot (comparative more compatriot, superlative most compatriot)

1. Of the same country; especially, being countrymen and having a common sentiment of patriotism.
   • 1736, [James] Thomson, The Prospect: Being the Fifth Part of Liberty. A Poem, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 8, lines 71–72:

     She [Britain] rears to Freedom an undaunted Race: / Compatriot zealous, hoſpitable, kind, […]

• “compatriot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French compatriote, Latin compatriota.

compatriot m (plural compatrioți, feminine equivalent compatrioată)

1. compatriot

   Synonym: simpatriot

• “compatriot”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026