village

noun

vil·​lage ˈvi-lij 

often attributive

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 (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

Synonyms

• bourg
• hamlet
• townlet
• vill
• whistle-stop

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 on the Web

The transaction includes interests in nine luxury retail properties outside major European cities including the Bicester shopping village, about 60 miles north west of London, according to a statement Monday. —Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 23 July 2024

Those people were from the villages close to Santa Marta, where vallenato was born. —Ernesto Lechner, Variety, 22 July 2024

So many of the bright woods and the tables are inspired by going back to my father’s fishing village, in Sweden. —Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 22 July 2024

Our water taxi driver, Matteo, lives in a frazione, one of the dozens of smaller villages that lie outside Bellagio proper, but are still part of the larger town. —Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024

Word History

Etymology

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

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Phrases Containing village

• global village
• inter-village
• Potemkin village

Kids Definition

village

noun

vil·​lage ˈvil-ij 

1

: a place somewhat smaller than a town

2

: the people living in a village