Compatriot vs Patriot - What's the difference?
compatriot | patriot |
Somebody from one's own country.
* Palfrey
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 20
, author=Jamie Lillywhite
, title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan
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Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
* Thomson
A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
* (Alexander Pope)
* {{quote-book
, year = 1901
, title = The Defendant
, first = G. K.
, last = Chesterton
, authorlink = G. K. Chesterton
, page = 166
, passage = “My country, right or wrong”, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober”.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1953
, chapter = Purely Personal Prejudices
, title = Strictly Personal
, first = Sydney J.
, last = Harris
, authorlink = Sydney J. Harris
, publisher = Regnery
, page = 228
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=DLcEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA228&dq=patriot
, passage = The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
}}
* 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]
(archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
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As nouns the difference between compatriot and patriot
is that compatriot is somebody from one's own country while patriot is a person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.As an adjective compatriot
is of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.As a proper noun Patriot is
a US surface-to-air missile system.compatriot
English
Noun
(en noun)- the distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America
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Synonyms
* fellow citizen * fellow countryman, fellow countrywomanAdjective
(en adjective)- She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, / Compatriot , zealous, hospitable, kind.
patriot
English
Noun
(en noun)- Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.
- Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots . Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.