Definitions for villages

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villages vil·lage

Spelling: [vil-ij]

IPA: /ˈvɪl ɪdʒ/

Villages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in villages (aegillsv).

Definitions for villages

noun

1. a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.
2. the inhabitants of such a community collectively.
3. a group of animal dwellings resembling a village:
4. The, a city in central Oklahoma.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a village:

Origin of villages

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Latin villāticum, neuter of villāticus villatic. See -age

Examples for villages

Ras Baalbek is just one of a handful of Christian villages in the northern Bekaa Valley not far from the Syrian border.

These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans.

At the time, the Special Forces were pushing into Afghan villages previously unoccupied by coalition forces.

Slowly, two were opened up, and in 2010 the regional government opened all four Brogpa villages in a push for tourism.

The hamlet itself, like most villages of the Lozre, has a neglected appearance.

So they rose up by clans and villages and followed after the Sign.

The villages are the fortifications, the fortifications are the villages.

It speaks to us in our counties, in our cities, in our towns, and in our villages.

But when the Jews entered Palestine, the Canaanites lived in towns and villages.

Construction is due to begin before the end of December, which means that lands will be taken, villages relocated.