Villager

Origin

village + -er

Full definition of villager

Noun

1. A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
• 1927, F. E. Penny, Pulling the Strings Chapter 5, 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).