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villager

/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/

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What does villager mean?

noun

  1. A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
  2. A worker unit.
  3. An inhabitant or resident of Greenwich Village, New York.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. An inhabitant or resident of The Village, Jersey City.
  2. An inhabitant or resident of The Villages, Florida.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/

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Formerly, though many years since, each villager had his cow and his pig, and his yard around his house.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
The priest was a clever man, and he knew that Messua was wife to the richest villager in the place.
Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle BookProject Gutenberg ebook #236
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Each petty villager would have his acre or half acre, or four, or five, or ten, or twenty acres, as the case might be.
James InglisSport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo PlanterProject Gutenberg ebook #10818
Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other service.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
In the great majority of cases he steals unawares upon his victim, and the mischief is effected before the wood-cutter or the villager is conscious of his danger.
William YouattThe DogProject Gutenberg ebook #9478