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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.
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Village
is always a great word to know.
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Example Sentences
- But even a city slum has benefits that you won't find on the farm or in the village.
- Usually it will go to a village bigwig, perhaps with a little help from local officials.
- Instead of the bing the village geek, you should become the village idiot as it is a more accurate description.
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village
late 14c., "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
EXPANDvilla "country house" (see villa). Village idiot is recorded from 1907.
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