villager
n.a person who lives in a small town or village. You use this word to talk about someone who belongs to a small community in the countryside.
n.an inhabitant of a village. Often used in historical or sociological contexts to distinguish rural residents from urban ones.
“The local villager showed us the way to the old church.”
“Every villager in the valley attended the annual harvest festival to celebrate the successful season.”
“The proposed dam project faced significant opposition from the local villager population, who feared the loss of their ancestral lands and traditional way of life.”
“He said rescuers were still searching for two villagers believed to be buried under tons of mud that tumbled down from the surrounding hills in a landslide triggered by the quake.”
“In southwestern France, 525 villagers fled a blaze in the pine woods of the Landes region, an area already hit by major fires this summer.”
From village + -er.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.