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.

   Synonyms: fellow citizen, countryperson

   Hyponyms: countryman, countrywoman

   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     And this, perhaps, might have been anticipated; for, as varieties, in order to become in any degree permanent, necessarily have to struggle with the other inhabitants of the country, the species which are already dominant will be the most likely to yield offspring which, though in some slight degree modified, will still inherit those advantages that enabled their parents to become dominant over their compatriots.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• compatriotic
• compatriotism
• compatriotship

Related terms

• patriot

Translations

somebody from one's own country

Albanian: bashkatdhetar (sq) m, njëgjakës (sq) Arabic: مُوَاطِن (ar) (muwāṭin), مُوَاطِنَة (ar) f (muwāṭina), زَمِيل m (zamīl), زَمِيلَة f (zamīla) Armenian: հայրենակից (hy) (hayrenakicʻ) Azerbaijani: həmvətən, həmvətənli, vətəndaş (az), yurddaş Belarusian: суайчы́ннік m (suajčýnnik), суайчы́нніца f (suajčýnnica), зямля́к m (zjamlják), зямля́чка f (zjamljáčka) Bikol Central: kahimanwa (bcl) Breton: kenvroad (br) m Bulgarian: съоте́чественик (bg) m (sǎotéčestvenik), съотече́ственичка f (sǎotečéstvenička), съотече́ственица f (sǎotečéstvenica), земля́к m (zemlják), земля́чка f (zemljáčka) Chinese: Mandarin: 同胞 (zh) (tóngbāo), 國人 / 国人 (zh) (guórén) Czech: krajan (cs) m, krajanka (cs) f Danish: landsmand (da) c, landsmandinde c Dutch: landgenoot (nl) m, landgenote (nl) f Esperanto: samlandano Estonian: kaasmaalane Finnish: maanmies (fi) French: compatriote (fr) m or f Galician: compatriota (gl) m or f Georgian: თანამემამულე (tanamemamule) German: Landsmann (de) m, Landsmännin (de) f, Landsfrau (de) f, Volksgenosse (de) m, Volksgenossin f (obsolete, someone belonging to the same ethnicity, caution with the term) Greek: συμπατριώτης (el) m (sympatriótis), συμπατριώτισσα (el) f (sympatriótissa) Hindi: स्वदेशवासी m (svadeśvāsī), देश-भाई m (deś-bhāī) Hungarian: honfitárs (hu) Indonesian: kompatriot (id) Italian: compatriota (it) m or f, connazionale (it) m or f, paesano (it) m, paesana f Japanese: 同胞 (ja) (はらから, harakara, どうほう, dōhō), 同国人 (どうこくじん, dōkokujin) Kazakh: отандас (otandas) Khmer: មិត្តរួមជាតិ (mɨt ruəm ciət) Korean: 동포(同胞) (ko) (dongpo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: hemwelatî (ku) Kyrgyz: мекендеш (mekendeş) Lao: ເພື່ອນຮ່ວມຊາດ (phư̄an hūam sāt) Latvian: tautietis m, tautiete f Lithuanian: kraštietis m, tėvynainis m Macedonian: сонародник m (sonarodnik), сонародничка f (sonarodnička) Manx: co-heeragh m Norwegian: Bokmål: landsmann (no) m, landsmanninne m or f Nynorsk: landsmann m Old English: ġelanda m Ottoman Turkish: وطنداش (vatandaş) Pashto: هموطن m (hamwatán), هېوادوال m (hewādwā́l), وطندار m, وطنوال m (watanwãl) Persian: هموطن (hamvatan), هم‌میهن (ham-mihan) Polish: rodak (pl) m, rodaczka (pl) f, krajan (pl) m, krajanka (pl) f, kompatriota (pl) m, kompatriotka f Portuguese: compatriota (pt) m or f, compatrício (pt) m, patrício (pt) m Romanian: compatriot (ro) m, compatrioată (ro) f Russian: сооте́чественник (ru) m (sootéčestvennik), сооте́чественница (ru) f (sootéčestvennica), земля́к (ru) m (zemlják), земля́чка (ru) f (zemljáčka) (informal) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сународник m, сународња̀киња f, зѐмља̄к m, земља̀киња f Roman: sunarodnik (sh) m, sunarodnjàkinja (sh) f, zèmljāk (sh) m, zemljàkinja (sh) f Slovak: krajan m, krajanka f Slovene: rojak m, rojakinja f Spanish: compatriota (es) m or f, paisano (es) m, coterráneo (es) m Swedish: landsman (sv) c or m, landsmaninna (sv) c or f Tagalog: kababayan Tajik: ҳамватан (tg) (hamvatan) Tatar: ватандаш (tt) (watandaş), илдәш (tt) (ildäş) Thai: เพื่อนร่วมชาติ (pʉ̂ʉan rûuam châat) Turkish: vatandaş (tr), hemşehri (tr), memleketli (tr) Turkmen: watandaş Ukrainian: співвітчи́зник m (spivvitčýznyk), співвітчи́зниця f (spivvitčýznycja), земля́к m (zemlják), земля́чка f (zemljáčka), края́нин m (krajányn), края́нка f (krajánka) Uzbek: vatandosh (uz) Vietnamese: đồng bào (vi) Yiddish: לאַנדסמאַן m (landsman), דאָרפֿמאַן m (dorfman)

Adjective

compatriot (comparative more compatriot, superlative most compatriot)

1. Of the same country; especially, being countrymen and 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, […]

Related terms

• patriot (adjective)
• patriotic

References

• “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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	compatriot	compatriotul		compatrioți	compatrioții
genitive-dative	compatriot	compatriotului		compatrioți	compatrioților
vocative	compatriotule			compatrioților

Further reading

• “compatriot”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025