villagemate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From village +‎ -mate.

Noun[edit]

villagemate (plural villagemates)

  1. One who comes from the same village.
    • 1992, Charlson Ong, Woman of Am-Kaw and Other Stories (Contemporary Philippine Fiction), Manila: Anvil Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
      He would have a new life in that far away land of brown men who worshipped white gods; where many of his villagemates had gone, where the earth was forever kind and the sun warm.