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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.

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