wantoks
wantoks is the plural of wantok.
Meaning of wantok
Noun
wantok (plural wantoks)
- A close comrade; a person with whom one has a strong social bond, usually based on a shared language.
- I refer to the classes of settlers thus distinguished as ‘wantok’ (although their members did not always have the same mother tongue), and the areas from which they came as ‘home areas’. […] There were 7 groups of wantok among the Situm block-holders and 4 among the Gobari holders.1971, A[nton] Ploeg, The Situm and Gobari Ex-servicemen’s Settlements, Canberra, A.C.T.: New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 23
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