countryman | Definition of countryman

Synonyms and Antonyms of countryman

1 a person living in or originally from the same country as another

met a fellow Canadian countryman while traveling in France

Synonyms of countryman

compatriot, landsman

Words Related to countryman

nationalist, patriot

citizen, national, subject

aborigine, native

Near Antonyms of countryman

alien, foreigner, immigrant, outsider

2 an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country

though neither well-educated nor well-dressed, the countryman presented the farmers' case before the state legislature

Synonyms of countryman

bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel

Words Related to countryman

boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf

greenhorn, tenderfoot

backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms of countryman

slicker, smoothy (or smoothie)

metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

Antonyms of countryman

cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate