See Also: village(dictionary)
Village Tap(tourism)
Village Hut(tourism)
village(dictionary)
Garden Village(tourism)
Green Cay Village(tourism)
Le Village Kabyle(tourism)
The Italian Village(tourism)
Rondel Village(tourism)
Thai Village(tourism)

village (iou)



village noun. LME.
[Old French, from Latin villa: see VILLAFRANCHIAN, -AGE.]
A self-contained group of houses and associated buildings, usu. in a country area; an inhabited place larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town. LME.
global village, lake village, post-village, street village, tent village, etc.
J. Purseglove The Warwickshire village of Barton near Stratford. D. M. Thomas It was scarcely a villagejust three or four houses and a church spire.
b. A large town or city, esp. London. joc. E19.
c. A small self-contained district or community within a city or town, regarded as having features characteristic of a village; spec. (the Village), Greenwich Village in New York. M19.
Harpers & Queen Hampsteadthe loveliest of London's historical 'villages'.
d. A minor municipality with limited corporate powers. US. L19.
e. A select suburban shopping centre. Austral. L20.
The inhabitants or residents of a village regarded as a community; the villagers. E16.
A small group or cluster of burrows of prairie dogs. Also village burrow. Cf. TOWN noun 7. E19.
Comb.: village burrow: see sense 3 above; village idiot a person of very low intelligence resident and well known in a village; transf. a very foolish or apparently simple-minded person; village pump a village's communal water pump (freq. allusively: cf. PARISH pump).
villagedom noun the condition or status of a village; the system of village communities: M19.
villageful noun as many as a village contains, the whole population of a village L19.
villagehood noun = villagedom L19.
villageless adjective L19.
village-like adjective resembling (that of) a village M19.
villaget noun (rare) a little village L18.
villageward(s) adverb in the direction of a village L19.
villagey adjective village-like L19.