About The Word Village
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Village Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Village?
[n] a community of people smaller than a town
[n] a settlement smaller than a town [n] a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century Synonyms | Synonyms for Village: Greenwich Village | hamlet | settlement | small town Related Terms | Find terms related to Village: See Also | campong | community | community | El Alamein | Greater New York | Jamestown | Jericho | Kampong | kraal | New York | New York City | pueblo | residential area | residential district | settlement Village In Webster's Dictionary \Vil"lage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. L. villaticus belonging
to a country house or villa. See {Villa}, and cf.
{Villatic}.]
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}.
Usage: 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.
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