village
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English village, from Old French village, from Latin villāticus, ultimately from Latin villa (English villa).
Broadly overtook Old English wic, þorp, and ham.
The Philippine sense is due to its frequent use in the names of gated communities.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: vil‧lage
- Rhymes: -ɪlɪdʒ
Noun
editvillage (plural villages)
- A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.
- 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
- […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.
- (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
- (Philippines) A gated community; a subdivision.
- There are six blocks in our village, each having ten lots.
Synonyms
edit- thorp (archaic)
Hypernyms
editHyponyms
editPlace names including "Village"
Derived terms
edit- antivillage
- black and white village
- cybervillage
- eco-village
- gay village
- global village
- Goose Village
- holiday village
- intervillage
- it takes a village
- it takes a village to raise a child
- lake village
- model village
- Olympic village
- Olympic village effect
- outvillage
- pit village
- police village
- postal village
- Potemkin village
- retirement village
- subvillage
- summer village
- televillage
- throne village
- unvillaged
- village bicycle/bike
- village cart
- village fair
- villageful
- village green
- village hall
- villagehood
- village idiot
- villageless
- villagelike
- villageman
- villagemate
- villageous
- villager
- villagery
- village sign language
- villaget
- villageward
- villagewards
- village weaver
- villagewide
- villagey
- villagism
- villagization
- villagize
- Westminster village
Related terms
editTranslations
edita rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town
|
French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin villaticus, from villa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvillage m (plural villages)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “village”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Occitan
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editvillage m (plural villages)
Categories:
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɪlɪdʒ
- Rhymes:English/ɪlɪdʒ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- British English
- Australian English
- Philippine English
- en:Places
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Louisiana French
- French terms with unvocalized -ill sequence
- Occitan lemmas
- Occitan nouns
- Occitan masculine nouns
- Occitan countable nouns