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Definition: Compatriot |
CompatriotNoun1. A person from your own country. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "compatriot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Friend | Compatriot; fellow countryman, countryman. |
Inhabitant | Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Compatriot |
| Non-English Usage: "Compatriot" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (compatriot, countryman, fellow-country). |
| "Compatriot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.58% of the time. "Compatriot" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.58% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "compatriot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njëkombës, bashkatdhetar (fellow countryman). (various references) | |
Arabic | من نفس البلد, زميل (associate, buddy, bully, chum, fellow, friend, mate), إبن نفس البلد, رفيق (associate, billyboy, boy friend, brush, buddy, bully, chum, companion, comrade, comradely, consort, escort, familiar, fellow, friend, helpmate, lenient, mate, pal, pard, partner, playfellow, stool, vis a vis, yokefellow). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сънародник (countryman, fellow countryman, landsman), колега (associate, colleague, fellow, fellow worker, friend, mate). (various references) | |
Czech | krajan (country man, countryman, fellow countryman). (various references) | |
Danish | landsmand. (various references) | |
Dutch | landsman, landgenoot, bewoner van een land, bewoner (inhabitant), <bewoner ?van een land?>. (various references) | |
Esperanto | samlandano, landano. (various references) | |
Finnish | maanmies (countryman). (various references) | |
French | compatriote (country man, country woman, fellow countryman). (various references) | |
Frisian | lânsman. (various references) | |
German | landsmann (fellow countryman). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπατριώτησ (countryman, fellow countryman), συμπατριώτης, πατριώτησ (buddy, patriot). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בן אות" ארץ (fellow countryman). (various references) | |
Hungarian | honfitárs (fellow countryman). (various references) | |
Indonesian | teman senegeri. (various references) | |
Italian | connazionale, compatriota (countryman, countrywoman). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 同胞 (brethren, brothers, fellow countrymen, fellowman). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どうぼう (brethren, brothers, companions, fellow countrymen, fellowman, fellows, sharers of a room, sharing a room, the same room), どうほう (brethren, brothers, companions, fellow countrymen, fellowman, fellows, the same country), どう"くじ" (fellow countryman, person from same province), はらから (brethren, brothers, fellow countrymen, fellowman). (various references) | |
Manx | co-heeragh (countryman). (various references) | |
Norwegian | landsmann. (various references) | |
Papiamen | paisano, kompatriota. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ompatriotcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | compatriota (countryman, fellow countryman, kinsman, kinswoman). (various references) | |
Romanian | compatriot (countryman, fellow-country). (various references) | |
Russian | соотечественник (countryman, fellow country man, fellow countryman, fellow-countryman). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zemljak (countryman, fellow countryman), sunarodnik (countryman). (various references) | |
Spanish | compatriota (countryman, fellow citizen, fellow countryman). (various references) | |
Swedish | landsman (countryman, fellow citizen, fellow countryman). (various references) | |
Turkish | yurttaş (citizen, fellow countryman, national), vatandaş (citizen, country woman, countryman, countrywoman, fellow countryman, fellow countrywoman, man in the street, national, subject). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | співвітчизник (countryman). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đ"ng xứ, đ"ng b o (fellow-citizen, fellow-countryman). (various references) | |
Welsh | cydwladwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "compatriot": compatriotic, compatriots. (additional references) | |
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"Compatriot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Comparco, compartriot, compatriote, comportait, conpatriot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "compatriot" (pronounced kumpā"trēut) |
| 7 | -p ā" t r ē u t | patriot. |
| 4 | -r ē u t | appropriate, baccalaureate, chariot, inappropriate, lariat, laureate, proletariat, secretariat. |
| 3 | -ē u t | associate, Cheviot, idiot, immediate, intermediate, opiate, remediate, soviet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-o-o-p-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: impactor, protatic. | |
-3 letters: apomict, apricot, aprotic, citator, compart, comport, crampit, motoric, parotic, patriot, portico, potamic, ricotta, taproom, taproot, tipcart, topcoat, tritoma. | |
-4 letters: aortic, armpit, atomic, atopic, captor, cartop, cottar, impact, impart, import, octopi, octroi, oomiac, optima, picaro, potato, ptotic, tipcat, tomato, tomcat, tricot, tropic. | |
-5 letters: actor, amort, aport, atrip, attic, campi, campo, carom, carpi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-o-o-p-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: compatriots. | |
+2 letters: compatriotic, postromantic. | |
+3 letters: recomputation. | |
+4 letters: anthropometric, recomputations, thromboplastic. | |
+5 letters: computerization, contemporaneity, photogrammetric, photometrically, prostatectomies. | |
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