compatriot

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
compatriot
    n 1: a person from your own country
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Compatriot \Com*pa"tri*ot\, n. [F. compatriote, LL.
   compatriotus; com- + patriota a native. See {Patriot}, and
   cf. {Copatriot}.]
   One of the same country, and having like interests and
   feeling.
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         The distrust with which they felt themselves to be
         regarded by their compatriots in America. --Palfrey.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Compatriot \Com*pa"tri*ot\, a.
   Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
   [1913 Webster]

         She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race,
         Compatriot, zealous, hospitable, kind.   --Thomson.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "compatriot":
      adjunct, ally, associate, bedfellow, brother, brother-in-arms,
      coadjutor, cohort, colleague, companion, compeer, comrade,
      confederate, confrere, congener, consociate, consort, countryman,
      countrywoman, crony, fellow, fellow citizen, fellow countryman,
      fellow member, fellow townsman, home towner, landsman, paesano,
      paisano
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