villager

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
village/ˈvɪlɪʤ/

▶noun

• 1 a group of houses situated in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town.

  ■ N. Amer. a small municipality with limited corporate powers.

• 2 a self-contained district or community within a town or city: the Olympic village.

– derivatives
villager noun,
villagey adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr., from L. villa ‘country house’.