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- Dictionaryvil·lage/ˈvilij/
noun
- 1. a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area.
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The meaning of VILLAGE is a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town. How to use village in a sentence.
a group of houses, stores, and other buildings which is smaller than a town: We live just outside the village of Larchmont. A village is also the people who live in a village: The whole village came out for the parade. (Definition of village from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of village. village.
a group of houses and other buildings that is smaller than a town, usually in the countryside: a fishing village. a mountain village. a village shop. a village green (= an area of grass in the middle of a village) Many people come from the outlying / surrounding villages to work in the town. [ C usually singular, + sing/pl verb ]
A village consists of a group of houses, together with other buildings such as a church and a school, in a country area.
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town [1][2][3][4] with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods.
A village is a place where people live that's smaller than a city or town. The village where your grandparents live might have a population of only a few hundred people. In the US, some towns, townships, and cities have smaller villages communities within them.
noun. /ˈvɪlɪdʒ/ [countable] a very small town located in a country area. We visited towns and villages all over Spain. a meeting in the village hall. a remote/nearby/neighbouring village. Residents of the village are unhappy with the bus service. a fishing village. a small/tiny village. rural villages. a mountain/seaside village.
Meaning & use. 1.a. c1386–. A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, forming a centre of habitation in a country district; an inhabited place larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, or having a simpler organization and administration than the latter. (Cf. the note to town n. I.4.)
1. a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usu. smaller than a town, sometimes incorporated as a municipality. 2. the inhabitants of such a community collectively. 3. a group of animal dwellings resembling a village.
VILLAGE definition: a place where people live in the countryside that includes buildings such as shops and a school but…. Learn more.
