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vil⋅lage

[vil-ij]
–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.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MF < L villāticum, neut. of villāticus villatic. See -age


vil⋅lage⋅less, adjective
vil⋅lage⋅y, vil⋅lag⋅y, adjective


1. See community.

Vil⋅lage

[vil-ij]
–noun
The, a city in central Oklahoma. 11,049.
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vil·lage   (vĭl'ĭj)   
n.  
  1. A small group of dwellings in a rural area, usually ranking in size between a hamlet and a town.

  2. In some U.S. states, an incorporated community smaller in population than a town.

  3. The inhabitants of a village; villagers.

  4. A group of bird or animal habitations suggesting a village.


[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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