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villager

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Etymology

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    From village + -er.

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    Noun

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    villager (plural villagers)

    1. A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
      Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:inhabitant
      Coordinate term: townsman
      • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
        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.”
    2. (strategy, games) A worker unit.
      Synonyms: peasant, peon, serf

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