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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
compatriot
com·pat·riot [compatriot compatriots] BrE [kəmˈpætriət] NAmE [kəmˈpeɪtiət] noun
a person who was born in, or is a citizen of, the same country as sb else
Syn: ↑countryman
•He played against one of his compatriots in the semi-final.
Word Origin:
late 16th cent.: from French compatriote, from late Latin compatriota (translating Greek sumpatriōtēs), from com- ‘together with’ + patriota ‘fellow countryman’, from Greek patriōtēs, from patrios ‘of one's fathers’, from patris ‘fatherland’.
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