plural noun

• 1People living or born in a rural area.

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  • ‘they prefer countryfolk to city slickers’

  Synonyms

  farmer, farmhand, country dweller, country cousin, son of the soil

• 2People from the same country as someone else.

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  • ‘their fellow countryfolk go to the polls next year’

  Synonyms

  compatriot, fellow citizen, fellow national, fellow countryman