village

nounsmall town

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "inhabited place larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town," from Old French village "houses and other buildings in a group" (usually smaller than a town), from Latin villaticum "farmstead" (with outbuildings), noun use of neuter singular of villaticus "having to do with a farmstead or villa," from villa "country house" (see villa). Village idiot is recorded from 1907.

Example Sentences for village

Even the village was too human, too modern, for his early-pagan mood.

It is the superintendent of the factory in our village—a man rich, or, at any rate, well-to-do.

That morning a rumor had reached the village of a famine in the island of Crete.

The house had been built only three years, and was the show-place of the village.

It occurred to him that he could sell them at ...

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