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COMPATRIOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compatriot mean?
• COMPATRIOT (noun)
The noun COMPATRIOT has 1 sense:
1. a person from your own country
Familiarity information: COMPATRIOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person from your own country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("compatriot" is a kind of...):
national; subject (a person who owes allegiance to that nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compatriot"):
countryman (a man from your own country)
countrywoman (a woman from your own country)
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