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-ville

-ville

See also: ville and Ville

English

Suffix

-ville

Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city.

Usage notes

Used for many towns in the English- and French-speaking world.
Also often used to construct fictional and exemplar placenames, such as Nowheresville and Smallville.

See also

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:English_words_suffixed_with_-ville'>English words suffixed with -ville</a>

French

Suffix

-ville

-ville

See also

Category French words suffixed with -ville not found