Meaning

2 senses
  1. A feminine compatriot.

  2. A woman who lives in the country (countryside) or has retained country ways.

    a woman who lives in the country and has country ways

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Your women may not be strong, unlike my own countrywomen.

  2. It was impossible to refuse the request of a fellow-countrywoman dying in a strange land.

    deEs war unmöglich, einer Landsmännin, die in einem fremden Land im Sterben lag, den Wunsch auszuschlagen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Though she was not on that team, Shim said through a translator, she certainly remembered the heartbreak of her countrywomen.

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Forms

plural: countrywomen
Singularcountrywoman
Pluralcountrywomen

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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