Definition of countrywoman in English:
countrywoman
nounPlural countrywomen ˈkʌntrɪˌwʊmənˈkəntriˌwʊmən
1A woman living or born in a rural area.
she was a countrywoman through and through
Example sentencesExamples
- As a country woman many of her articles reflected that background, recalling old times and customs.
- She has firsthand impressions of a young country woman experiencing life in a bedsit in the big city, savouring her freedom and coping with the difficulties.
- The work of a humble but devout countrywomen with considerable artistic talent, they provide a unique glimpse into traditional Ethiopian life and labor.
- His wife is similarly developed little beyond the feisty, lusty, rosy-cheeked and wide-hipped countrywoman you might expect to find in a work by Hogarth.
- The queen is very much a country woman: she likes horses and dogs, as she has often made clear.
- A month or two back one of the Sunday papers had an article about a countrywoman who went to extremes to pay for her daughter's riding lessons.
- She has a house in Mayfair, but no enthusiasm for London: she is a countrywoman at heart.
- As this simple countrywoman puts it, ‘Like we were standing on a lake of ice that was turning to fire right under our feet.’
- Madame Cholet, a kindly countrywoman who lived in the neighbouring house, knitted her woolly socks to keep her feet warm during pruning.
- After the usual preliminaries a smiling countrywoman appeared, bearing a platter on which nestled a large sea bass in a bed of tinder-dry brushwood.
- The former wife of a racehorse trainer, a countrywoman through and through, says she's now thinking of moving away.
Synonyms
compatriot, fellow citizen, fellow national, fellow countrywoman
2A woman from the same country as someone else.
Simpson and her fellow countrywomen head to Perth
Example sentencesExamples
- But her fellow countrywoman was following a different race plan that allowed her to maintain boat speed for longer.
- Her fellow Italian countrywoman is reticent about providing the child with help and seems backward in her conduct.
- With millions of Indians tuning in for live broadcasts of international competitions featuring their countrywomen, the pageant scene is an advertiser's dream.
- In that respect he is very different from his countrywoman, who won the women's 100m minutes earlier and is now going for a five-gold haul later this week.
- Good to see they're supporting their fellow countrywoman.
- One Indian news agency even tracked the flight so it could tell readers the exact minute they could wave to the skies to hail their countrywoman.
- Her countrywoman, who published The Female Eunuch in 1970, had already whetted the appetite for work by women.
- Most are probably unaware that one of their countrywomen is considered the most beautiful in the world.
- Deprived of their countrywomen's company all week while they work in isolation, Sunday is their chance to socialize.
- Remarkably, she was back later that day to play her top-seeded countrywoman in the final.
Synonyms
farmer, farmhand, country dweller, country cousin, daughter of the soil
Definition of countrywoman in US English:
countrywoman
nounˈkəntriˌwʊmənˈkəntrēˌwo͝omən
1A woman from the same country or region as someone else.
thousands turned out to welcome home their countrywoman
a fellow countrywoman from Ohio
2A woman living or born in a rural area.
she was a countrywoman through and through