countrywoman
countrywoman · countrywomen
A feminine compatriotA feminine compatriot.
» Your women may not be strong, unlike my own countrywomen.
Meaning
2 sensesA feminine compatriot.
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 sentencesYour women may not be strong, unlike my own countrywomen.
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
Though she was not on that team, Shim said through a translator, she certainly remembered the heartbreak of her countrywomen.
Forms
plural: countrywomen| Singular | countrywoman |
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irregular · Lesson
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular