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
The children were accidentally napalmed by South Vietnamese pilots who mistook a group of fleeing villagers for Viet Cong.
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
Sure, to be entirely historically accurate, negative things like plagues, beheadings and poverty would likely factor in to the villagers’ lives.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
One villager, his intestines spilling out of his stomach, fell into Las Casas arms.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Zhang hopes Nighttime Sounds will use arthouse technique to convey the unspoken emotional lives of rural villagers — feelings rarely expressed even within their own communities, let alone to outsiders unfamiliar with China’s countryside.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
Sure, to be entirely historically accurate, negative things like plagues, beheadings and poverty would likely factor in to the villagers’ lives.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
One villager, his intestines spilling out of his stomach, fell into Las Casas arms.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Zhang hopes Nighttime Sounds will use arthouse technique to convey the unspoken emotional lives of rural villagers — feelings rarely expressed even within their own communities, let alone to outsiders unfamiliar with China’s countryside.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for villager
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The Islamists were seen as complicit in India’s worst plane hijack in 1999 and the 2008 attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, which killed several Indian citizens, including two senior diplomats.—
Happymon Jacob,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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Around 60% of Iraq's nearly 46 million citizens are under the age of 30, a demographic that could determine whether the election reinvigorates a stagnant political system or deepens disillusionment.—
Emma Graham,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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With nearly one-third of Los Angeles County's 10 million residents being foreign-born, the declaration has significant social and economic implications, especially for immigrant and mixed-status families.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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Gas from Tehran fuels nearly a third of Iraq's electricity generation, yet frequent and prolonged outages remain common, forcing residents to rely on costly, polluting private generators.—
Emma Graham,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Villager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villager. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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