villagemate

English

Etymology

From village +‎ -mate.

Noun

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.