Definition of village
1a : a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a townb : an incorporated minor municipality
2 : the residents of a village
3 : something (such 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
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Examples of village in a Sentence
Entire villages come to see the parade.
we stayed in a charming bed-and-breakfast in a lakeside village
Recent Examples of village from the Web
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Naperville firefighters, for example, assisted the village of Plainfield when a freight train derailed on June 30 and Naperville police stepped in to help Aurora on Dec. 26 when a brawl broke out at the Fox Valley Mall.
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Beverly Grove, $$$ Gino Angelini grew up on his grandma’s green lasagna in a village outside the Adriatic resort city of Rimini and came to L.A. to help Mauro Vincenti with Rex in the mid-’90s.
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His party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), has eyes in every village, and enforces obedience through fear.
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The family later moved to Horse Cave, Kentucky, where his father owned a drug store and young John recalled traveling medicine shows coming into town, with peddlers hawking their wares on village square.
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Tinley Park officials will consider tax incentives to help two businesses that are looking to relocate to the village.
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A loudspeaker atop a nearby mosque alerted the village to the leaking fuel, and hundreds rushed to fill jerry cans and buckets.
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Just after daybreak, a three-vehicle caravan arrives at the edge of a lake by this remote village on the coast of China's Yellow Sea, not far from Confucius's birthplace.
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A storm in 2013 eroded 50 feet of the beach overnight—including part of the road next to the airstrip, the only way out if the village should have to evacuate.
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Origin and Etymology of village
Middle English, from Anglo-French vilage, from vil manorial estate, farmstead, from Latin villa
VILLAGE Defined for English Language Learners
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: a small town in the country
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: the people who live in a village
VILLAGE Defined for Kids
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1 : a place where people live that is usually smaller than a town
2 : the people living in a village The entire village turned out for the parade.
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