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Compatriot vs Patriot - What's the difference?

compatriot | patriot |

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)
  • 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) ----

    patriot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.
  • * {{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]
    • 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.
  • (archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
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    • Derived terms

    * patriotic * patriotism * Patriot missile * patriotization

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