village, small town, settlement
(noun) a community of people smaller than a town
village, hamlet
(noun) a settlement smaller than a town
Source: WordNet® 3.1
village (plural villages)
A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
(British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
(Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
(Philippines) A gated community.
• thorp (archaic)
• settlement
• Brunswick Village
• Cherokee Village
• eco-village
• global village
• Lake Village
• Olympic village
• Potemkin village
• Swan Village
Source: Wiktionary
Vil"lage (; 48), n. Etym: [F., fr. L. villaticus belonging to a country house or villa. See Villa, and cf. Villatic.]
Definition: A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top.
Syn.
– Village, Hamlet, Town, City. In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
