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Webster 1913 Edition


Village

Vil′lage

(?; 48)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. L.
villaticus
belonging to a country house or villa. See
Villa
, and cf.
Villatic
.]
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.
Syn.
Village
,
Hamlet
,
Town
,
City
.
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.
A small assemblage of houses, less than a town or city, and inhabited chiefly by farmers and other laboring people. In England, it is said that a village is distinguished from a town by the want of a market.
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)

  1. 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.
  2. (Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
  3. (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.

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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)

  1. village

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Occitan

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Noun

village m (plural villages)

  1. village