单词 | villager |
释义 | villagern. One who lives in a village; now usually, a working-class inhabitant or native of a village. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of village > [noun] villager1570 thorpsman1674 villageress1873 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Gii/1 A Villager, villicus. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 173 Brutus had rather be a Villager, Then to repute himselfe a Sonne of Rome Vnder these hard Conditions. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 7 Some harmlesse Villager Whom thrift keepes up about his Country geare. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 59 No chearful Maid nor Villager is seen. 1752 E. Young Brothers ii. i Each villager Is queen of her affections. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 47 Vast districts, which the nearest villagers took possession of. 1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning i. i The desolate parsonage was committed to the charge of one of the villagers. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. i. 314 All Frenchmen, alike townspeople and villagers, were free. Derivatives ˈvillageress n. a female villager, a village girl or woman. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of village > [noun] villager1570 thorpsman1674 villageress1873 1873 M. Collins Miranda II. 22 The villageresses were terribly jealous at first. 1894 A. d'Heristal Discord. Life 101 She was so indifferent about what the squiresses and villageresses might say about her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1570 |
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