compatriot
noun
a native or inhabitant of one's own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman.
compatriotism
-
a word derived from
compatriot.
Example Sentences
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The captain, whose open, ingenuous countenance dissembled as villainous a heart as ever beat in the breast of any man, disowned the compatriotism with a smile.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
It may be doubted whether any competent critic not, like Scott, bribed by compatriotism, ever put Smollett above Fielding, or even on a level with him.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
