[FELLOW sb. 11 c.] One belonging to the same country with another; a compatriot.

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1583.  Stocker, Hist. Ch. Warres Low C., I. 111. They … keepe their faith … with their fellow countrie men.

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1639.  Fuller, Holy War, IV. xvi. 196. There behold the mangled, headless, feetless corpses of their fellow-countreymen.

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1793.  W. Roberts, Looker-on (1794), III. 202. A fellow-countryman from Scotland.

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1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. lxvi.

          When less barbarians would have cheered him less,
  And fellow-countrymen have stood aloof—
In aught that tries the heart how few withstand the proof!

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1877.  Black, Green Past., iii. (1878), 22. The cry of our fellow-countrymen in prison—political prisoners in a free country, sorr—is nothing to you.

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