[vil-ij] 
| 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. |
| 4. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a village: village life. |
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