vill

as in village
a small residential settlement an ancient vill nestled midst the verdant hills

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village
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  • Police and army inspect damage to a house destroyed by debris from a shot down Russian drone in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland, on September 10, 2025.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • His films tend to have a David-versus-Goliath quality in their characters and their narratives, particularly his 2019 breakout Bacurau, a genre experiment that imagined what would happen if bloodthirsty outsiders attacked a small rural village.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Vill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vill. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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