Definitions for: 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

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: Greenwich Village, hamlet, settlement, small town

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

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