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Webster 1913 Edition
Village
Vil′lage
(?; 48)
, Noun.
A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Village cart
, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top.
In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop’s see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold.
Webster 1828 Edition
Village
VIL'LAGE
,Noun.
In the United States, no such distinction exists, and any small assemblage of houses in the country is called a village.
Definition 2024
village
village
English
Noun
village (plural villages)
- A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict:
- […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.
- There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.
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- (Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
Synonyms
- thorp (archaic)
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Translations
a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town
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Most common English words before 1923: cry · step · turning · #812: village · quickly · lie · supposed
French
Etymology
From Latin villaticus, from villa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vilaʒ/
Noun
village m (plural villages)