villagemate
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villagemate (plural villagemates)
- 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.