villager
/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒə/US/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/
villager noun: a person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
Noun (1)
villager (plural villagers)
- A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
- Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings
- A worker unit.
Noun (2) capitalized: Villager
Villager (plural Villagers)
- An inhabitant or resident of Greenwich Village, New York.
- Synonyms:
- Greenwich Villager
- An inhabitant or resident of The Village, Jersey City.
- An inhabitant or resident of The Villages, Florida.
villager meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
villager in Hindi
- person who lives in, or comes from, a village
- ग्रामवासी grāmvāsī, गांववाला gāmvvālā, गँवार gãvār, ग्रामीण grāmīṇ, देहाती dehātī
villager in Tamil
- நாட்டகத்தார், ஊரார், ஊரான்
villager in Urdu
- person who lives in, or comes from, a village
- دیہاتی dehātī
villager in Bengali
- villager
- গ্রামীণ gramin
More languagesFewer languages
- villager in Telugu
- గ్రామస్థుడు grāmasthuḍu
- villager in Malayalam
- ഗ്രാമീണൻ grāmīṇaṉ
- villager in Kannada
- ಊರವ, ಊರಾಳು, ಪಳ್ಳಿಗ, ಹಳ್ಳಿಗ
- villager in Gujarati
- કિસાન kisān
- villager in Sanskrit
- ग्रामीण grāmīṇa
- villager in Arabic
- قَرَوِيّ qarawiyy, قَرَوِيَّة qarawiyya
- villager in Thai
- ชาวบ้าน chaao-bâan
- villager in Vietnamese
- dân làng, dân nông thôn
- villager in Myanmar
- တောသူတောင်သား tau:sutaungsa:
Examples of villager in a sentence
- Although I don't speak Chinese, I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.
- The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.
- The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
Synonyms of villager
Forms of villager
| plural | villagers |
|---|---|
| plural | Villagers |
Origin of villager
From village + -er.
Words formed from villager
Questions about villager
- What does villager mean?
- Villager means a person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
- What is villager in Hindi?
- Villager in Hindi is ग्रामवासी (grāmvāsī), गांववाला (gāmvvālā), गँवार (gãvār). See Villager meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is villager?
- Villager is a noun.
- How do you pronounce villager?
- Villager is pronounced /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of villager?
- The plural of villager is villagers.
Words near villager in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: villager (page history and authors); Villager (page history and authors); villager (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গ্রামীণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); villager (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); કિસાન (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ग्रामीण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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