Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
VILLAGE
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• thorp (archaic)
Hypernyms
• settlement
Hyponyms
• 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
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FOOTING
(noun) status with respect to the relations between people or groups; “on good terms with her in-laws”; “on a friendly footing”
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