单词 | fellow countryman |
释义 | fellow countrymann. A citizen of the same country as another specified person; a compatriot. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > compatriots > [noun] > compatriot brotherOE countrymanc1390 fellow subject1549 fellow countryman1577 patriot1596 landsman1605 compatriot1611 domestic1620 paisan1940 1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. A.iiiv I would that my brethren and fellowe countreymen [Fr. compatriottes] shoulde..reape the commoditie of my good will toward them. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iii. f. 111 They..keepe their faith..with their fellow countrie men [Fr. compatriots]. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xvi. 196 The..corpses of their fellow-countreymen. 1678 S. Speed tr. Valerius Maximus Romæ Antiquæ Descriptio ix. v. 449 Nor was he ashamed to deny himself to be a Son, a fellow-Countryman [L. civem], and a Mortal. 1746 S. Lewis Serm. Present Rebellion 27 Your Streets paved with the dead Bodies of your Fellow-Countrymen. 1794 W. Roberts Looker-on (new ed.) III. 202 A fellow-countryman from Scotland. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxv. 93 When..fellow-countrymen [would] have stood aloof. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. iii. 44 The cry of our fellow-countrymen in prison. 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. xii. 122 Mrs. Jayne.., soon tiring of widowhood, married a fellow-countryman. 1988 Ethics 98 663 (title) What is so special about our fellow countrymen? 2002 Daily Tel. 23 Sept. 22/4 The most viscerally British of my fellow countrymen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1577 |
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