Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inhabitant of a village.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inhabitant of a village.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inhabitant of a village.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who lives in, or comes from, a village
- noun a
worker unit (Synonyms:peasant ,peon ,serf )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who has lived in a village most of their life
Etymologies
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Examples
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The only time you ever see a black villager attacking another black villager is in a scripted scene, and even then you don't really see an attack - just a person being held down and fed an object.
Savage Kingdom SVGL 2009
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A villager from the Dahnd area of Kandahar, according to Naimattullah, had only few thousand afghanis to feed his wife and five children.
Boing Boing: November 11, 2001 - November 17, 2001 Archives 2001
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There are no jump scares in Wolfman as much as excited anticipation about which villager is going to get the business next (hint: it’s the one who looks scared and confused and has no one else in the frame with him).
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A villager is a villager, a citizen is a citizen, and a metropolitan is a metropolitan -- each of which is always expected to have a standing commensurate with his opportunities.
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany
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Second, it is true that there are 'arbitrage' opportunity from the "villager" graduates, but this is not without costs, i.e., more time to select the right candidate due to lower average success rate.
Archive 2007-06-01 Sun Bin 2007
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Second, it is true that there are 'arbitrage' opportunity from the "villager" graduates, but this is not without costs, i.e., more time to select the right candidate due to lower average success rate.
"Take Advantage Of Employment Discrimination" Sun Bin 2007
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It started off very simply, with basic roles such as villager and mafia.
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Narvik is a small town (population 18,000) and fairly isolated, but we never refer to anyone in the United States as a "villager" no matter where they live.
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July 12th, 2009 at 8: 10 pm we never refer to anyone in the United States as a "villager" no matter where they live
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Even in his 'villager's' role he looked perfect, and spoke the dialect well.
rediff.com 2009
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