villager

English

Etymology

village +‎ -er

Noun

villager (plural villagers)

1. A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
   • 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

Translations

person who lives in, or comes from, a village

• Arabic: قَرَوِيّ m (qarawiyy)
• Armenian: գյուղացի (hy) (gyuġacʻi), շինական (hy) (šinakan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鄉下人／乡下人 (zh) (xiāngxiarén), 乡下人 (zh) (xiāngxiarén), 村民 (zh) (cūnmín)

• Coptic: ⲣⲉⲙϯⲙⲓ (remtimi)
• Czech: vesničan (cs) m, vesničanka f
• Danish: landsbyboer c
• Dutch: dorpsbewoner (nl) m, dorpsbewoonster f, dorpeling (nl) m, dorpelinge f, dorper (nl) m
• Esperanto: vilaĝano, vilaĝanino (female)
• Finnish: kyläläinen (fi)
• French: villageois (fr) m, villageoise (fr) f
• Georgian: სოფლელი (sopleli), სოფლის მცხოვრები (soplis mcxovrebi)
• German: Dorfbewohner (de) m, Dorfbewohnerin (de) f, Dörfler (de) m, Dörflerin (de) f
• Greek: χωριάτης (el) m (choriátis), χωρικός (el) m (chorikós), χωριάτα (el) f (choriáta), χωρική (el) f (chorikí), χωριάτισσα (el) f (choriátissa)

  Ancient: κωμήτης m (kōmḗtēs)

• Hungarian: falusi (hu), falubeli
• Italian: paesano (it) m, paesana f
• Japanese: 村人 (むらびと, murabito), 村民 (ja) (そんみん, sonmin)
• Latin: pāgānus m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landsbyboer m, landsbybuer m

  Nynorsk: landsbybuar m

• Old East Slavic: вьсꙗнинъ m (vĭsjaninŭ)
• Persian: دهاتی (fa) (dehâti)
• Polish: wieśniak (pl) m, wieśniaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: aldeão (pt) m, aldeã f
• Russian: селя́нин (ru) m (seljánin), селя́нка (ru) (seljánka), дереве́нский жи́тель m (derevénskij žítelʹ), дереве́нская жи́тельница f (derevénskaja žítelʹnica), се́льский жи́тель m (sélʹskij žítelʹ), се́льская жи́тельница f (sélʹskaja žítelʹnica)
• Spanish: aldeano (es) m, aldeana (es) f
• Swahili: mwanakijiji (sw)
• Swedish: bybo (sv) c
• Telugu: గ్రామస్థుడు (te) (grāmasthuḍu)
• Thai: ชาวบ้าน (chaao-bâan)
• Turkish: köylü (tr)
• Westrobothnian:

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• (deprecated template usage) Slovak: dedinčan m, dedinčanka f
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