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Compatriot vs Paisano - What's the difference?

compatriot | paisano |

As nouns the difference between compatriot and paisano

is that compatriot is somebody from one's own country while paisano is peasant; rustic.

As an adjective compatriot

is of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.

compatriot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Somebody from one's own country.
  • * Palfrey
    • the distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.}}

    Synonyms

    * fellow citizen * fellow countryman, fellow countrywoman

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
  • * Thomson
    • She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, / Compatriot , zealous, hospitable, kind.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    paisano

    English

    (wikipedia paisano)

    Alternative forms

    * paisan

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Peasant; rustic
  • One's fellow countryman; compatriot
  • native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry
  • roadrunner
  • *about 1900 , O. Henry,
  • *:Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano , well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.

    • Anagrams

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