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compatriot

compatriot: listen to American pronunciation/kəmˈpeɪ·tri·ət/ n [C]

Definition

a person who comes from your own country:
This writer and several of her Russian compatriots now live in New York.
A compatriot is also a friend or someone you work with:
After work, I went to dinner with some of my office compatriots.
(Definition of compatriot n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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