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单词 compatriot
释义
compatriotcom‧pat‧ri‧ot /kəmˈpætriət $ -ˈpeɪt-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcompatriot
Origin:
1500-1600 French compatriote, from Late Latin, from Latin com- (COM-) + Late Latin patriota (PATRIOT)
Examples
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  • I discovered I had just committed the crime of killing compatriots...
  • I see that I enjoy an exaggerated reputation for probity among my compatriots.
  • I was a coach, a compatriot, helping the men as they struggled with their test taking and their writing.
  • Like his compatriot Nelson Piquet, Emerson in the cockpit is a somnolent cat.
  • Their pal Robert Musgrave would play their long-suffering compatriot, Bob.
  • What Zyuganov reassuringly says to nervous westerners is not what he has been saying for the past five years to his compatriots.
someone who was born in or is a citizen of the same country as someone else SYN  countrymansomebody’s compatriot Schmidt defeated his compatriot Hausmann in the quarter final.
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