村民|そんみんsonmin[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounvillager
   村民そんみんたちは新道しんどうに賛成さんせいした。↗

   The villagers supported a new road.

• Synonym村人むらびとNeutralNative Japanese word for people living in a village; common in stories and everyday speech, while 「村民」 sounds administrative and formal.
• Synonym里人さとびとWrittenWritten/formal prose word for people of the countryside or a village; archaic and rarely used in modern Japanese.
• Antonym市民しみんNeutralRefers to residents of a city, the opposite of 「村民」.

Use 「村民」 for villagers in administrative contexts, as in 「村民税」; 「村人」 is the everyday and storybook word; for city residents use 「市民」.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 小規模しょうきぼ集落しゅうらくの住人じゅうにん。村人むらびと。
2. 地方ちほう行政ぎょうせい単位たんいである「村むら」の住民じゅうみん。