A person who lives in the same village as another; a fellow villager.
From Latin co- (together) + English village + -er (agent suffix), meaning 'one who shares a village with others.'
In medieval times, covilagers shared feudal obligations and had to work together on communal lands, making the bonds between covilagers as important as family bonds in social structure.
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