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COUNTRYWOMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does countrywoman mean?
• COUNTRYWOMAN (noun)
The noun COUNTRYWOMAN has 2 senses:
1. a woman who lives in the country and has country ways
2. a woman from your own country
Familiarity information: COUNTRYWOMAN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman who lives in the country and has country ways
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("countrywoman" is a kind of...):
rustic (an unsophisticated country person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A woman from your own country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("countrywoman" is a kind of...):
compatriot (a person from your own country)
Context examples
It was impossible to refuse the request of a fellow-countrywoman dying in a strange land.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had better do the old countrywoman: the Cottager's wife; you had, indeed, Julia.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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