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noun

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.

the inhabitants of such a community collectively.

a group of animal dwellings resembling a village: a gopher village.

adjective

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a village: village life.

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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin villāticum, neuter of villāticus villatic. See -age

Related forms

vil·lage·less, adjective

vil·lage·y, vil·lag·y, adjective

in·ter·vil·lage, adjective

Synonyms
1. See community.

Example Sentences

For all of their anti-capitalist messages, the people who are living in this tent village couldn't be more tied to capitalism.

But the women of the village kept going back to the river to fetch water.

Yet as trained village health workers they are saving lives.

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For all of their anti-capitalist messages, the people who are living in this tent village couldn't be more tied to capitalism.

But the women of the village kept going back to the river to fetch water.

Yet as trained village health workers they are saving lives.

We need elegant designs and cheap manufacture to produce village sized aquaponic units and set them up around the globe.

The museum offers village tours and special events.

The village had been tagged as a point of origin for a recent rocket attack on the.

Up in the village he promises fertilisers, medicine, more teachers.

The ruins of an ancient village submerged by the construction of a hydroelectric dam.

Instead of the bing the village geek, you should become the village idiot as it is a more accurate description.

They don't even know there was a village up there above the springs.

If a monster comes out, it goes into a village stack which counts against the players.

Both bountiful seasons began with local officials providing wads of vouchers to village leaders, who distributed the discounts.

His village has successfully used rainwater harvesting to secure water.

They said that when women in this tribe get married they move to a new village.

Tunes written in one village would often be given lyrics by a member of a different community.

You're not crawling through horrifying mansions or trying to make your way out of a zombie-filled village.

On the other side of the village, the hunter managed to triumphantly enter the village.

Yet as trained village health workers, they are delivering.

The idyllic image of the small village cannot be re-created through modern electronic technology.

Its spine, a sloping village lane, leads to an almost sacred view of the actual island.

The residents of one affluent village actually blocked a.

Indeed, the poor often use microloans to pay off far more expensive loans from village moneylenders.

The varied terrain provides a haven for drug smuggling and makes it rather difficult to travel freely from village to village.

Buckets full of free birth control pills and condoms on the corner of every village in developing countries.

Hall, a diminutive village in comparison, actually has a bigger old center.

Usually it will go to a village bigwig, perhaps with a little help from local officials.

Inside he found the undisturbed skeleton of a top pyramid builders' village official.

Village elders observed the flowering of the baobab tree or the flights of bees to tell them when to plant.

Visit this living history and village museum with original structures.

They, along with the rest of the young people, have left their village to look for work in cities.

Lewis situated his fort across the river from this village.

If you use the words slinked or smited everybody will think you are the village idiot.

The virus spread rapidly from village to village, killing half of its victims.

Poured into the burrow, poisoned seeds can wipe out a whole village.

But even a city slum has benefits that you won't find on the farm or in the village.

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noun

The, a city in central Oklahoma. 11,049.

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village (ˈvɪlɪdʒ)

—n
1.	a small group of houses in a country area, larger than a hamlet
2.	the inhabitants of such a community collectively
3.	an incorporated municipality smaller than a town in various parts of the US and Canada
4.	a group of habitats of certain animals
5.	(NZ) a self-contained city area having its own shops, etc
6.	(modifier) of, relating to, or characteristic of a village: a village green

[C15: from Old French, from ville farm, from Latin: villa]

'village-like

—*adj*

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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

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villa "country house" (see villa). Village idiot is recorded from 1907.

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