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vil⋅lage

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

Related forms:
vil⋅lage⋅less, adjective
vil⋅lage⋅y, vil⋅lag⋅y, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See community.
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Word Origin & History

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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