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An inhabitant or native of a region.

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  1. n. An inhabitant or native of a region.
  2. n. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun.
  3. n. One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.
  4. n. a man from your own country
  5. n. a man who lives in the country and has country ways
  6. 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.
  7. n:100 n. a man from your own country n. a man who lives in the country and has country ways