village

noun, often attributive

vil·lage | \ ˈvi-lij

Definition of village

1a : 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

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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

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Navarro’s great-uncle, José Antonio Marco Viedma, was 33 years old when he was executed with fifteen others by Franco’s army in the small village of Calatayud in September 1936. — Joseph Zeballos-roig, The New Republic, "How to Dig Up a Dictator," 11 July 2018 Ten years ago, Jan Scrutton and her family moved from a rural village in England to the San Francisco Bay area. — Jennifer Breheny Wallace, ajc, "Even casual ties to others can better your health," 10 July 2018 Approved by the village in 2013 and opened in 2015, several large-scale public meetings were held to get resident input on that project. — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, "Construction set to start on South Elgin senior housing complex," 3 July 2018 The building is one of 16 structures protected by the village in the Old Orland historic district. — David Gleisner, Daily Southtown, "Orland Park's 'first and oldest' home is on the market," 2 July 2018 The people in a village in Madhya Pradesh, India, have to walk several miles in the hot sun each day to find a well that has water in it. — National Geographic, "Why These Children Are Forced to Scale a 40-Foot Well," 22 June 2018 And at one time, Yosemite Falls served as home base for the Yosemite Indians, who lived at the base of the falls in a village called Ah-wah´-nee. — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, "North America’s Most Spectacular Waterfalls," 18 June 2018 At the wake the next day, in a tiny village in Apopa where a few years ago the gangs would never have bothered extending their tentacles, little more was said about how Landaverde came to be there. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, "Gangs in El Salvador are using women's bodies for 'revenge and control'," 14 June 2018 Sofia is a 32-year-old Malawian woman living in a remote village in the southern district of Chikwawa. — Mélissa Godin, Teen Vogue, "Climate Change Is Creating a New Atmosphere of Gender Inequality for Women in Malawi," 20 Dec. 2018

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