Synonyms of villagers

villagers

noun

plural of villager

as in citizens

a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis

the villagers have a reputation for being polite and helpful to the tourists

Synonyms & Similar Words

• citizens
• residents
• inhabitants
• townsmen
• natives
• townspeople
• burghers
• occupants
• towns
• residers
• townies
• townsfolk
• dwellers
• habitants
• nationals
• townswomen
• denizens
• cliff dwellers
• subjects
• suburbanites
• urbanites

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• visitors
• foreigners
• tourists
• guests
• aliens
• noncitizens
• transients
• nonnatives
• gownsmen

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of villagers

Office of Civil Defense deputy administrator Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV said about 11,000 villagers moved to 77 emergency shelters mostly in southern Philippine provinces in recent days because of the stormy weather. — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026

Office of Civil Defense deputy administrator Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV said about 11,000 villagers moved to 77 emergency shelters mostly in southern Philippine provinces in recent days due to the stormy weather. — ABC News, 11 July 2026

Some villagers tried to resist the takeover by shrimp farmers. — Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, The Dial, 7 July 2026

Thousands of people attend the festivities, during which villagers wearing 18th-century period costumes reenact the 1781 Siege of Pensacola, a turning point in the American Revolution. — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

There were ten of us, with several large sacks of nonperishable items—canned fish, soap, bottled water—along with more than six hundred arepas that the villagers had cooked the night before. — Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026

Civilians in the area have not been instructed to evacuate but have faced checkpoints and tension, with occasional clashes between Israeli soldiers and villagers. — Melanie Lidman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026

The villagers often had to move in the dark to avoid being detected. — Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Money, 12 June 2026

Some villagers sat in the shade of towering fig trees, while others planted yams or dug the soil with tree branches. — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026