village
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
village/ˈvɪlɪʤ/
▶noun
- 1 a group of houses situated in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town.
■ N. Amer. a small municipality with limited corporate powers.
- 2 a self-contained district or community within a town or city: the Olympic village.
– derivatives
villager noun,
villagey adjective.
villager noun,
villagey adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. villa ‘country house’.
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- barège
- bastide
- bauxite
- Bedlington terrier
- borstal
- Chasselas
- Claddagh ring
- Clifden nonpareil
- creature
- dorp
- Eleusinian mysteries
- feast
- finnan
- global village
- Gorgonzola
- green
- Hallstatt
- hamlet
- kampong
- kraal
- Lassa fever
- linsey-woolsey
- longhouse
- malik
- mohalla
- outlying
- outport
- panchayat
- pueblo
- Quorn
- reeve
- Roquefort
- sarpanch
- Sealyham
- Seidlitz powder
- Semtex
- sheikh
- shopping village
- shtetl
- street
- Tempranillo
- tholeiite
- thorp
- town
- township
- Traminer
- Waterloo
- wick
