Main Entry: vil·lage

Pronunciation: \ˈvi-lij\

Function: noun

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vilage, from vil manorial estate, farmstead, from Latin villa

Date: 14th century

1 a : a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town b : an incorporated minor municipality
2 : the residents of a village
3 : something (as an aggregation of burrows or nests) suggesting a village
4 : a territorial area having the status of a village especially as a unit of local government