VILLAGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does villager mean? 

• VILLAGER (noun)
  The noun VILLAGER has 1 sense:

1. one who has lived in a village most of their life

  Familiarity information: VILLAGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VILLAGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who has lived in a village most of their life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("villager" is a kind of...):

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

 Context examples 

No wonder that my inquiries among those villagers led to nothing.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Forests in south India that had become degraded due to excessive fuelwood extraction recovered after villagers living nearby switched to biogas for their cooking fuel needs, says a study.

(Shift to biogas helps revive forests, SciDev.Net)

He had carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There was a good business to be done at Friar’s Oak from the passing traffic and the Sussex farmers, so that he soon became the richest of the villagers; and he came to church on a Sunday with his wife and his nephew, looking as respectable a family man as one would wish to see.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had money with me and gained the friendship of the villagers by distributing it; or I brought with me some food that I had killed, which, after taking a small part, I always presented to those who had provided me with fire and utensils for cooking.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At first the steps of a few belated villagers, or the sound of voices from the village, lightened our vigil, but one by one these interruptions died away, and an absolute stillness fell upon us, save for the chimes of the distant church, which told us of the progress of the night, and for the rustle and whisper of a fine rain falling amid the foliage which roofed us in.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Often I have watched them come up the aisle upon a Sunday, first the square, thick-set man, and then the little, worn, anxious-eyed woman, and last this glorious lad with his clear-cut face, his black curls, and his step so springy and light that it seemed as if he were bound to earth by some lesser tie than the heavy-footed villagers round him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)