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Webster 1913 Edition


Vill

Vill

,
Noun.
[OF.
ville
,
vile
, a village, F.
ville
a town, city. See
Villa
.]
A small collection of houses; a village.
“Every manor, town, or vill.”
Sir M. Hale.
Not should e’er the crested fowl
From thorp or
vill
his matins sound for me.
Wordsworth.
☞ A word of various significations in English, law; as, a manor; a tithing; a town; a township; a parish; a part of a parish; a village. The original meaning of vill, in England, seems to have been derived from the Roman sense of the term villa, a single country residence or farm; a manor. Later, the term was applied only to a collection of houses more than two, and hence came to comprehend towns. Burrill. The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I., mentions entire-vills, demivills, and hamlets.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vill

VILL

,
Noun.
[L. villa.] A village; a small collection of houses.
The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I mentions entire-vills, demi-vills, and hamlets.

Definition 2024


vill

vill

See also: Vill.

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪl
  • IPA(key): /vɪl/

Noun

vill (plural vills)

  1. the smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish

Etymology 2

From will

Verb

vill

  1. Eye dialect spelling of will.

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German filu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fil/

Adjective

vill (irregular declension, comparative mieh, superlative et mietste or mieste or mieschte or määste or määschte)

  1. much; many

Usage notes

  • The adjective is declined regularly after an article or determiner, otherwise it is uninflected.
  • The superlative forms et mie(t)ste, mieschte are Ripuarian, the forms et määste, määschte are Moselle Franconian.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German filu, from Proto-Germanic *felu. Cognate with German viel, Dutch veel, English fele.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fil/
  • Rhymes: -il

Adjective

vill (masculine vill or villen, neuter vill or villt, comparative méi, superlative am meeschten)

  1. much, many
    En huet vill Frënn.
    He has many friends.

Usage notes

  • The positive forms are declined regularly after an article or determiner, otherwise they remain uninflected.
  • The comparative form is indeclinable and cannot be preceded by articles or determiners.
  • The superlative forms are declined in the normal way.

Adverb

vill

  1. much, a lot
    Dat Hiem ass vill ze kleng.
    That shirt is much too small.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse villr, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋɪl/
  • Homophone: vil
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Adjective

vill (neuter singular vilt, definite singular and plural ville, comparative villere, indefinite superlative villest, definite superlative villeste)

  1. wild

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse villr

Adjective

vill (neuter singular vilt, definite singular and plural ville, comparative villare, indefinite superlative villast, definite superlative villaste)

  1. wild

Derived terms

References


Old French

Noun

vill m, f

  1. rare form of ville

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse villr, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz. This is cognate with vild (wild), which is influenced from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɪl/

Adjective

vill

  1. (dated) lost (not knowing place or directions)

Synonyms

Related terms

Verb

vill

  1. present tense of vilja.

References

  • vill in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)