Definitions for village

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village vil·lage

Spelling: [vil-ij]

IPA: /ˈvɪl ɪdʒ/

Village is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in village (aegillv).

Definitions for village

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 village

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

Examples for village

The house had been built only three years, and was the show-place of the village.

Even the village was too human, too modern, for his early-pagan mood.

On the southern side of the JSA, there is a village called Daeseong-dong (대성동).

In the weeks following the Sept. 9, car bombing at the Iranian base, Iran raided a village in the Pakistani district of Chagai.

Back in Iran, he once got word that the Iranians were going to raid a village where his men were stationed.

That morning a rumor had reached the village of a famine in the island of Crete.

It is the superintendent of the factory in our village—a man rich, or, at any rate, well-to-do.

It occurred to him that he could sell them at a market store in the village.

In this smaller town, there are only five families, the village chief says.

On the northern side of the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea, there is a village called Kijong-dong (기정동).