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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