单词 | landsman |
释义 | landsmann.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native people > [noun] > person sonOE landsmanc1000 natural1509 native1535 homeling1577 indigena1591 originary1594 home-born1600 birth child1609 inbred1625 naturalist1631 autochthon1646 naturalizanta1652 breedling1663 indigene1664 indigenal1722 child (son, etc.) of the soil1814 native-born1814 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 26 Twegen landes menn and an ælþeodig. 11.. Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1068 Ða comon ða landes menn togeanes him & hine ofslogon. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 197 Oðer kinnes neddre is ut in oðer londe..and te londes men hire bigaleð oðer wile and swo lacheð and doð of liue. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 33 It were a wrecched schame þat a newe comynge schulde putte olde londesmen [L. veteres incolas] out of here place. b. One's fellow-countryman. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > compatriots > [noun] > compatriot brotherOE countrymanc1390 fellow subject1549 fellow countryman1577 patriot1596 landsman1605 compatriot1611 domestic1620 paisan1940 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 354 If (braue Lands-men) your war-thirst be such [Fr. Que si tant, ô Francois, vous cerchez les batailles]..What holds you heere? 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. vi. 143 I am innocent—I am your own native landsman. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 319/2 [He] boldly dissuaded his landsmen from idolatry. 1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Jan. 10/3 I found out the mate was a landsman of mine who came from Helsingfors. 2. (a) One who lives or has his business on land: opposed to seaman. (b) Nautical. ‘The rating formerly of those on board a ship who had never been to sea, and who were usually stationed among the waisters or after-guard’ (Adm. Smyth). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > land-dweller landman1480 landsman1667 land-loper1694 landlubber1752 landswoman1837 shoreman1888 Hampstead Heath sailor1889 1667 S. Pepys Diary 2 Jan. (1974) VIII. 1 The French, who have certainly shipped landsmen, great numbers, at Brest. 1788 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 427 Weak, timid Landsmen on life's stormy main! 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. i. 4 Employed, as a landsman usually is, in the afterguard, or waist, of the ship. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) x. 208 Sailors,..can make out a distant object much better than a landsman. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xviii. 147 Thomas Redruth..landsman, shot by the mutineers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022). landsmann.2 In Jewish usage: a Jewish person who has emigrated, or whose family has emigrated, from the same country as another specified person; a fellow countryman, a compatriot. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > emigrant > other emigrants remittancer1750 redemptioner1771 remittance man1874 remittance farmer1894 landsman1901 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > one who is a compatriot landsman1901 1901 Publ. Amer. Jewish Hist. Soc. 9 72 At the early stage of immigration, strangers..were..given a helpful start in the new world by the members of the congregation, especially if the ‘greenhorns’ happened to meet a ‘landsman’ or a native countryman. 1910 Reform Advocate 22 Jan. 971/2 This week I made the acquaintance of an old landsman of mine, who is not of a very orthodox type, but who is the arch-enemy of the photographic camera. 1950 B. Malamud in Partisan Rev. Sept. 664 With, after all, a landsman, he would have less to fear than with a complete stranger. 1973 Listener 20 Sept. 377/1 You put on your Shabbat suit..and descended on a nearby relative or landsman. 2018 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 22 Jan. 2 He has..received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Telfed, together with his good friend and landsman, Smoky Simon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1000n.21901 |
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