compatriot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French compatriote, itself borrowed from Latin compatriota. Displaced native Old English ġelanda.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/, /kəmˈpætɹi.ət/
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Noun

compatriot (plural compatriots)

  1. Somebody from one's own country.
    • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England:
      the distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America
    • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎:
      However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.

Synonyms

Translations

Adjective

compatriot (comparative more compatriot, superlative most compatriot)

  1. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
    • 1736, [James] Thomson, The Prospect: Being the Fifth Part of Liberty. A Poem, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 8, lines 71–72:
      She [Britain] rears to Freedom an undaunted Race: / Compatriot zealous, hoſpitable, kind, […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compatriot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French compatriote, Latin compatriota.

Noun

compatriot m (plural compatrioți, feminine equivalent compatrioată)

  1. compatriot
    Synonym: simpatriot

Declension
Declension of compatriot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) compatriot compatriotul (niște) compatrioți compatrioții
genitive/dative (unui) compatriot compatriotului (unor) compatrioți compatrioților
vocative compatriotule compatrioților

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