Word Meanings - COUNTRYMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who

Additional info about word: COUNTRYMAN

1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer. A simple countryman that brought her figs. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COUNTRYMAN)

• Peasant
• Countryman
• hind
• clown
• laborer
• villager
• swain
• rustic

Related words: (words related to COUNTRYMAN)

• VILLAGERY
  Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• SWAINLING
  A little swain.
• PEASANT
  A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind. (more info) with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays
• PEASANTLY
  Peasantlike. Milton.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• CLOWN
  Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
• CLOWNISH
  Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• SWAINMOTE
  A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders,
• RUSTICLY
  In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
• CLOWNERY
  Clownishness. L'Estrange.
• LABORER
  One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
• RUSTICATED
  resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
• PEASANTLIKE
  Rude; clownish; illiterate.
• VILLAGER
  An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak.
• SWAINSHIP
  The condition of a swain.
• SWAIN
  1. A servant. Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer. 2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• BOATSWAIN
  An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. The jager gull. The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain.
• COCKSWAIN
  The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.