as in citizen
a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis
the villagers have a reputation for being polite and helpful to the tourists
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Recent Examples of villager
Smaller homes dot rolling hills, as do trees and villagers.
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Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
The Denver Post in 2022 published a three-part investigation that documented, for the first time, how local villagers dredged these valuable antiquities from a secret vault at the Plai Bat II temple in northeast Thailand and sold them to a burgeoning collector named Douglas Latchford.
—Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2025
According to the folklore, a mythical beast would come and devour villagers and livestock each Chinese New Year, but the beast was afraid of loud noises and the color red.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Jan. 2025
Dasha, Yuri’s long-absent mother sympathetically portrayed by Emily Watson, is another villager who’s awestruck by the ochi.
—Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
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Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
The Denver Post in 2022 published a three-part investigation that documented, for the first time, how local villagers dredged these valuable antiquities from a secret vault at the Plai Bat II temple in northeast Thailand and sold them to a burgeoning collector named Douglas Latchford.
—Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2025
According to the folklore, a mythical beast would come and devour villagers and livestock each Chinese New Year, but the beast was afraid of loud noises and the color red.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Jan. 2025
Dasha, Yuri’s long-absent mother sympathetically portrayed by Emily Watson, is another villager who’s awestruck by the ochi.
—Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Villager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villager. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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