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
11 May 2025
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
