Standard Lemma guide

compatriot

adj · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/
  • /kəmˈpætɹi.ət/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Of the same country; especially, being countrymen and having a common sentiment of patriotism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Somebody from one's own country.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fellow citizen, countryperson

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a person from your own country

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: national, subject

Narrower terms: countryman, countrywoman

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French compatriote, itself borrowed from Latin compatriota. By surface analysis, com- + patriot. Displaced native Old English ġelanda.

Across languages

Translations

155 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Spanish: conterráneo — Translations
  • Spanish: coterráneo — Translations
  • Spanish: paisano — Translations
  • Albanian: bashkatdhetar — somebody from one's own country
  • Albanian: njëgjakës — somebody from one's own country
  • Arabic: مُوَاطِن (muwāṭin) — somebody from one's own country
  • Arabic: مُوَاطِنَة (muwāṭina) — somebody from one's own country
  • Arabic: زَمِيل (zamīl) — somebody from one's own country
  • Arabic: زَمِيلَة (zamīla) — somebody from one's own country
  • Armenian: հայրենակից (hayrenakicʻ) — somebody from one's own country
  • Azerbaijani: həmvətən — somebody from one's own country
  • Azerbaijani: həmvətənli — somebody from one's own country
  • Azerbaijani: vətəndaş — somebody from one's own country
  • Azerbaijani: yurddaş — somebody from one's own country
  • Belarusian: суайчы́ннік (suajčýnnik) — somebody from one's own country
  • Belarusian: суайчы́нніца (suajčýnnica) — somebody from one's own country
  • Belarusian: зямля́к (zjamlják) — somebody from one's own country
  • Belarusian: зямля́чка (zjamljáčka) — somebody from one's own country
  • Bengali: স্বদেশবাসী (śodeśbaśi) — somebody from one's own country
  • Central Bikol: kahimanwa — somebody from one's own country
  • Breton: kenvroad — somebody from one's own country
  • Bulgarian: съоте́чественик (sǎotéčestvenik) — somebody from one's own country
  • Bulgarian: съотече́ственичка (sǎotečéstvenička) — somebody from one's own country
  • Bulgarian: съотече́ственица (sǎotečéstvenica) — somebody from one's own country
  • Bulgarian: земля́к (zemlják) — somebody from one's own country
  • Bulgarian: земля́чка (zemljáčka) — somebody from one's own country
  • Burmese: တိုင်းရင်းသား (tuing:rang:sa:) — somebody from one's own country
  • Burmese: တိုင်းရင်းသူ (tuing:rang:su) — somebody from one's own country
  • Burmese: နိုင်ငံသားချင်း (nuingngamsa:hkyang:) — somebody from one's own country
  • Chinese Mandarin: 同胞 (tóngbāo) — somebody from one's own country
  • Chinese Mandarin: 國人 /国人 (guórén) — somebody from one's own country
  • Czech: krajan — somebody from one's own country
  • Czech: krajanka — somebody from one's own country
  • Czech: soukmenovec — somebody from one's own country
  • Czech: soukmenovkyně — somebody from one's own country
  • Danish: landsmand — somebody from one's own country
  • Danish: landsmandinde — somebody from one's own country
  • Dutch: landgenoot — somebody from one's own country
  • Dutch: landgenote — somebody from one's own country
  • Esperanto: samlandano — somebody from one's own country
  • Estonian: kaasmaalane — somebody from one's own country
  • Finnish: maanmies — somebody from one's own country
  • French: compatriote — somebody from one's own country
  • Galician: compatriota — somebody from one's own country
  • Georgian: თანამემამულე (tanamemamule) — somebody from one's own country
  • German: Landsmann — somebody from one's own country
  • German: Landsmännin — somebody from one's own country
  • German: Landsfrau — somebody from one's own country
  • German: Volksgenosse — somebody from one's own country
  • German: Volksgenossin — somebody from one's own country
  • Greek: συμπατριώτης (sympatriótis) — somebody from one's own country
  • Greek: συμπατριώτισσα (sympatriótissa) — somebody from one's own country
  • Hebrew: בֶּן אַרְצוֹ (ben artsú) — somebody from one's own country
  • Hindi: स्वदेशवासी (svadeśvāsī) — somebody from one's own country
  • Hindi: देश-भाई (deś-bhāī) — somebody from one's own country
  • Hindi: हमवतन (hamvatan) — somebody from one's own country
  • Hungarian: honfitárs — somebody from one's own country
  • Icelandic: landsmaður — somebody from one's own country
  • Icelandic: samlanda — somebody from one's own country
  • Indonesian: kompatriot — somebody from one's own country
  • Irish: comhthíreach — somebody from one's own country
  • Italian: compatriota — somebody from one's own country
  • Italian: connazionale — somebody from one's own country
  • Italian: paesano — somebody from one's own country
  • Italian: paesana — somebody from one's own country
  • Japanese: 同胞 — somebody from one's own country
  • Japanese: 同国人 (dōkokujin) — somebody from one's own country
  • Kazakh: отандас (otandas) — somebody from one's own country
  • Khmer: មិត្តរួមជាតិ (mɨt ruəm ciət) — somebody from one's own country
  • Korean: 동포 (dongpo) — somebody from one's own country
  • Korean: 동국인 (donggugin) — somebody from one's own country
  • Northern Kurdish: hemwelatî — somebody from one's own country
  • Kyrgyz: мекендеш (mekendeş) — somebody from one's own country
  • Lao: ເພື່ອນຮ່ວມຊາດ (phư̄an hūam sāt) — somebody from one's own country
  • Latvian: tautietis — somebody from one's own country
  • Latvian: tautiete — somebody from one's own country
  • Lithuanian: kraštietis — somebody from one's own country
  • Lithuanian: tėvynainis — somebody from one's own country
  • Macedonian: сонародник (sonarodnik) — somebody from one's own country
  • Macedonian: сонародничка (sonarodnička) — somebody from one's own country
  • Maltese: kompatrijott — somebody from one's own country
  • Manx: co-heeragh — somebody from one's own country
  • Mongolian: нэг нутгийн хүн (neg nutgiin xün) — somebody from one's own country
  • Norwegian Bokmål: landsmann — somebody from one's own country
  • Norwegian Bokmål: landsmanninne — somebody from one's own country
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: landsmann — somebody from one's own country
  • Old English: ġelanda — somebody from one's own country
  • Pashto: هموطن (hamwatán) — somebody from one's own country
  • Pashto: هېوادوال (hewādwā́l) — somebody from one's own country
  • Pashto: وطندار — somebody from one's own country
  • Pashto: وطنوال (watanwãl) — somebody from one's own country
  • Iranian Persian: هَمْوَطَن (hamvatan) — somebody from one's own country
  • Iranian Persian: هَممیهَن (ham-mihan) — somebody from one's own country
  • Polish: rodak — somebody from one's own country
  • Polish: rodaczka — somebody from one's own country
  • Polish: krajan — somebody from one's own country
  • Polish: krajanka — somebody from one's own country
  • Polish: kompatriota — somebody from one's own country
  • Polish: kompatriotka — somebody from one's own country
  • Polish: ziomek — somebody from one's own country
  • Portuguese: compatriota — somebody from one's own country
  • Portuguese: compatrício — somebody from one's own country
  • Portuguese: patrício — somebody from one's own country
  • Romanian: compatriot — somebody from one's own country
  • Romanian: compatrioată — somebody from one's own country
  • Russian: сооте́чественник (sootéčestvennik) — somebody from one's own country
  • Russian: сооте́чественница (sootéčestvennica) — somebody from one's own country
  • Russian: земля́к (zemlják) — somebody from one's own country
  • Russian: земля́чка (zemljáčka) — somebody from one's own country
  • Serbo-Croatian: сународник — somebody from one's own country
  • Serbo-Croatian: сународња̀киња — somebody from one's own country
  • Serbo-Croatian: зѐмља̄к — somebody from one's own country
  • Serbo-Croatian: земља̀киња — somebody from one's own country
  • Serbo-Croatian: sunarodnik — somebody from one's own country
  • Serbo-Croatian: sunarodnjàkinja — somebody from one's own country
  • Serbo-Croatian: zèmljāk — somebody from one's own country
  • Serbo-Croatian: zemljàkinja — somebody from one's own country
  • Slovak: krajan — somebody from one's own country
  • Slovak: krajanka — somebody from one's own country
  • Slovak: súkmeňovec — somebody from one's own country
  • Slovak: súkmeňovkyňa — somebody from one's own country
  • Slovene: rojak — somebody from one's own country
  • Slovene: rojakinja — somebody from one's own country
  • Spanish: compatriota — somebody from one's own country
  • Spanish: paisano — somebody from one's own country
  • Spanish: coterráneo — somebody from one's own country
  • Spanish: compatricio — somebody from one's own country
  • Spanish: conterráneo — somebody from one's own country
  • Swedish: landsman — somebody from one's own country
  • Swedish: landsmaninna — somebody from one's own country
  • Tagalog: kababayan — somebody from one's own country
  • Tajik: ҳамватан (hamvatan) — somebody from one's own country
  • Tajik: ҳамдиёр (hamdiyor) — somebody from one's own country
  • Tatar: ватандаш (watandaş) — somebody from one's own country
  • Tatar: илдәш (ildäş) — somebody from one's own country
  • Thai: เพื่อนร่วมชาติ (pʉ̂ʉan-rûuam-châat) — somebody from one's own country
  • Turkish: vatandaş — somebody from one's own country
  • Turkish: hemşehri — somebody from one's own country
  • Turkish: memleketli — somebody from one's own country
  • Ottoman Turkish: وطنداش (vatandaş) — somebody from one's own country
  • Turkmen: watandaş — somebody from one's own country
  • Ukrainian: співвітчи́зник (spivvitčýznyk) — somebody from one's own country
  • Ukrainian: співвітчи́зниця (spivvitčýznycja) — somebody from one's own country
  • Ukrainian: земля́к (zemlják) — somebody from one's own country
  • Ukrainian: земля́чка (zemljáčka) — somebody from one's own country
  • Ukrainian: края́нин (krajányn) — somebody from one's own country
  • Ukrainian: края́нка (krajánka) — somebody from one's own country
  • Urdu: ہَم وَطَن (ham vatan) — somebody from one's own country
  • Urdu: گِرائِیں (girāī̃) — somebody from one's own country
  • Urdu: دیش بھائی (deś bhāī) — somebody from one's own country
  • Uyghur: ۋەتەنداش (wetendash) — somebody from one's own country
  • Uzbek: vatandosh — somebody from one's own country
  • Vietnamese: đồng bào — somebody from one's own country
  • Yiddish: לאַנדסמאַן (landsman) — somebody from one's own country
  • Yiddish: דאָרפֿמאַן (dorfman) — somebody from one's own country
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