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

Last week, dozens of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers who were trying to pick olives. — Liam Scott, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

Fischer and Wilson’s bawdy fable is predominately about how this flammable hunk makes the rest of the villagers burn up with jealousy. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

That’s what the Prophet Muhammad was doing in exhibiting restraint with the angry villagers. — Casper Ter Kuile, Vox, 21 Oct. 2026

Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, a blogger who filmed the assault, said the settlers beat Levine with sticks while the journalists and villagers were forced to retreat. — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026

Armando Babani / Getty Reuters found no evidence of wrongdoing by Kushner, who is not directly involved in the villagers’ dispute. — Reuters, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026

When the village doctor is found murdered, villagers turn on the boy – leaving the amnesiac stranger, who is experiencing flashbacks to a previous life in England, as his only hope as his powers of deduction return. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

Naibaho described how some villagers in Sumatra are paid up to 15 million Indonesian rupiah ($846) to poach a baby orangutan. — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

Authorities had moved the start of a curfew forward without ensuring that villagers working outside knew about it. — Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026