SANsomeone who was born in or is a citizen of the same country as someone else 同国人,同胞SYN countryman
somebody’s compatriot
Schmidt defeated his compatriot Hausmann in the quarter final.
施密特在四分之一决赛中击败了同胞豪斯曼。
Examples from the Corpus
compatriot• I was a coach, a compatriot, helping the men as they struggled with their test taking and their writing.• Like his compatriot Nelson Piquet, Emerson in the cockpit is a somnolentcat.• What Zyuganov reassuringly says to nervous westerners is not what he has been saying for the past five years to his compatriots.• I discovered I had just committed the crime of killing compatriots...• I see that I enjoy an exaggeratedreputation for probity among my compatriots.• Their pal Robert Musgrave would play their long-sufferingcompatriot, Bob.
somebody’s compatriot• Minh joined nearly 1 million of his compatriots in the West after being expelled from the Communist party in Vietnam.
Origincompatriot
(1500-1600)Frenchcompatriote, from Late Latin, from Latincom- ( → COM-) + Late Latinpatriota ( → PATRIOT)