villagers

noun

plural of villager
as in citizens
a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis the villagers have a reputation for being polite and helpful to the tourists

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Recent Examples of villagers The villagers often had to move in the dark to avoid being detected. — Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Money, 12 June 2026 Some villagers sat in the shade of towering fig trees, while others planted yams or dug the soil with tree branches. — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026 There were ten of us, with several large sacks of nonperishable items—canned fish, soap, bottled water—along with more than six hundred arepas that the villagers had cooked the night before. — Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026 Civilians in the area have not been instructed to evacuate but have faced checkpoints and tension, with occasional clashes between Israeli soldiers and villagers. — Melanie Lidman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026 Civilians in the area have not been instructed to evacuate but have faced checkpoints and tension, with occasional clashes between Israeli soldiers and villagers. — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026 The rescue operations began when seven villagers searching for gold in the central Laotian province of Xaisomboun became stranded in the cave on May 20. — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026 The 56-year-old was found guilty last year of inciting social unrest after meeting with villagers displaced by government construction projects, in what was widely seen as one of many legal moves taken by the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet to silence critics. — ABC News, 24 June 2026 Thousands of people attend the festivities, during which villagers wearing 18th-century period costumes reenact the 1781 Siege of Pensacola, a turning point in the American Revolution. — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
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  1. citizens
  2. residents
Noun
  • According to Smith, citizens of East Florida even burned the leaders behind the Declaration of Independence in effigy.
    — Hank Tester, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • But Trump responded by urging Congress to adopt through legislation the restrictions against allowing the children of temporary visitors or undocumented immigrants become citizens.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of citizens
Noun
  • These are some of the asks of residents in communities around the country.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Elsewhere, residents have resorted to digging cesspits as latrine stocks run severely low, leading to soil and water contamination, according to Hosni Nadeem Mohanna, a water municipality spokesperson in Gaza City.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of residents

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