noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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Will dove breeding survive the inevitable changes in occupations and lifestyles of the local villagers that industrialisation will cause?
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The success of the project is due to the co-operation of local villagers , who collect up to 1,000 eggs a night.
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By training one local villager we can bring change to a whole community.
other
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He steered her in between the other villagers with fierce concentration.
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That's what puzzled me and the other villagers .
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Instead the newcomers tend to evaluate the farm worker and the other villagers on the basis of urban criteria for allocating prestige.
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This was followed by four further weeks which trained them to pass on these new skills to other villagers .
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The village priest was arrested and later executed and deportation and death for other villagers also resulted.
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The other villagers , eyeing each other speculatively, saw that they were all too full of pasta for the adventure.
■ VERB
tell
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They marched along the railway telling villagers they had come to liberate them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A week later villagers found the corpse of his eldest daughter, 12, by the creek.
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Is that villager friendly or unfriendly?
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It was a question the villagers had to have asked.
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Nevertheless the Hena villagers, in their ordinary lives, led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers.
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The villagers were peasants and small-scale farmers who lived a semi-subsistence existence.
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The villagers won't go near him, except for mad old Meg, but then she's almost a witch herself.
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We used to get information about them from the villagers.