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

The murder leaves the villagers uneasy and forms the first crack in their orderly lives. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026

According to the Israeli military, one of the villagers took one of the settlers’ weapons and fired on the group, killing Benayahu Mellet, 32, a security guard in a settlement nearby. — Majdi Mohammed, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026

The face of evil, Clemons hires him to command his army against the villagers, but Skelton is hard to control. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 21 July 2026

This erasure was meant to transform the land beyond recognition and leave the Palestinian villagers pushed into the coastal area with nothing to return to. — Literary Hub, 16 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