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vil⋅lage
[vil-ij] 
ɪdʒ
–noun
| 1. | a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality. |
| 2. | the inhabitants of such a community collectively. |
| 3. | a group of animal dwellings resembling a village: a gopher village. |
–adjective
| 4. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a village: village life. |
Related forms:
vil⋅lage⋅less, adjective
vil⋅lage⋅y, vil⋅lag⋅y, adjective
Vil⋅lage
[vil-ij] –noun
| The, a city in central Oklahoma. 11,049. |
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| vil·lage (vĭl'ĭj) n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vīllāticum, farmstead, from neuter of vīllāticus, of a villa or farmstead, from vīlla, country house, farm; see weik-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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Village
Vil"lage\ (?; 48), n. [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. Usage: 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.
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Language Translation for : Village
Spanish:
pueblo,
German:
das Dorf, Dorf-…,
Japanese:
村
village
c.1386, "inhabited place larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town," from O.Fr. village "houses and other buildings in a group" (usually smaller than a town), from L. villaticum "farmstead" (with outbuildings), noun use of neut. sing. of villaticus "having to do with a farmstead or villa," from villa "country house" (see villa). Village idiot is recorded from 1907.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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