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villagey

[vil-ij] Origin

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.

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Villagey is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
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.

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

vil·lage·less, adjective
vil·lage·y, vil·lag·y, adjective
in·ter·vil·lage, adjective


1. See community.

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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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