villagevil‧lage /ˈvɪlɪdʒ/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 
a little fishing villagevillage school/shop/church etc2the village the people who live in a village: The whole village came to the meeting.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + villagesmall/little/tiny· They come from a small village in Laos.pretty/picturesque· There are many pretty villages nearby.remote (=one that is far away from larger towns)· We need to get food aid to the more remote villages.quiet/sleepy (=one where there is not a lot of activity)· Downham was a sleepy little village, with a road barely wide enough for one car.a fishing village· Once a fishing village, this is now a friendly, lively international resort.a mountain/hilltop village· The paths lead to picturesque mountain villages.village + NOUNthe village hall/school/shop/church· A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.the village green (=area of grass for everyone to use)· a cricket match on the village greenvillage life (=all the activities in a village)· She had always taken an active part in village life.
WORD ORIGINvillage
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French ville ‘farm, village’, from Latin villa; ➔ VILLAEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- She left her village in the north of Thailand and went to live in Bangkok.
- There are some nice little pubs in the villages round here.
- Even at this size it completely outclassed most Rutland villages, quite two-thirds of which had populations of fewer than 150.
- I saw these villages peeking out of the jungles and tangled hillsides all through the highlands.
- It didn't, and by the time she did reach the village it was fully dark - and pouring with rain.
- The village school was closed in 1948 and the children are taken by bus to other schools in the area.
- The village school, built in 1870, is now closed and used for the village hall.
- The death did not move the village.
- There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding.
Longman Language Activatorrelating to or in a town
· The town council has proposed a new road building project.· With better town planning, traffic problems could be avoided.town square (=a square in the centre of a town) · A market is held daily in the town square.
relating to or in a city: · The city library cost over $15 million to build.· Residents blame city officials for poor housing conditions.· the city authoritiescity streets: · Beneath the city streets is a network of sewers.city life: · City life is becoming increasingly dangerous.
British relating to a village: · There is a village festival every year at the beginning of May.· Has village life changed significantly in the last few years?village shop/school/hall etc: · We have a church, one pub and a village shop.
relating to towns and cities, the people who live in them, or the things that happen in them: · The problem of air pollution is especially serious in urban areas.· China's growing urban population· post-war urban planning· urban growth
relating to the government of a city or town: · Civic leaders cannot agree on what is best for the city.· An important civic function is taking place in the city hall this evening. · Harlow Council has always been generous with civic funding for music and the arts.· It is the civil duty of every citizen to vote.
relating to the government of a town or city or to the public services it provides: · Municipal elections will be held on April 12th.· Not far from the town centre is the municipal park.· The museum and other municipal buildings are threatened.
American in or belonging to the main business area in the centre of a town or city: · Taylor worked in a dingy little office in downtown Chicago.· Many downtown department stores are moving out into the wealthier suburbs.· a downtown hotel
relating to a large city: · Some workers can only afford homes outside metropolitan areas.· the metropolitan authorities
a town a place where a lot of people live with houses, streets, shops etc: · More and more people were seeking work in the growing towns.· The town is situated some 23 miles north of London.· a small town in the Midwesta seaside/industrial/market town: · La Coruna is a pretty seaside town on the north-western tip of Spain. part of town: · Steyne Street was a narrow street in a shabby but respectable part of town.the town of Warrington/Poitiers/Kimball etc written: · A large sign announced that we were entering the town of Knock.town and country (=people who live in towns and people who live in the country): · deep divisions in wealth between town and country
a big and important town that is often the centre of government for an area, has a lot of trade and industry, and is likely to contain important political, educational, or religious institutions: · You should visit San Francisco. It's a beautiful city.· The major industrial cities were getting increasingly overcrowded.a big/crowded/medieval etc city: · I was alone in a big city in a new country.· Leeds is a thriving, vibrant, and prosperous city.the city of Belfast/Jerusalem/Boston etc written: · The city of Barcelona is famous for its wonderful architecture.· the ancient city of Damascus
a very small town in the country: · There are some nice little pubs in the villages round here.· She left her village in the north of Thailand and went to live in Bangkok.
a place where people come to live for the first time and where they build a village or town: · She lived in a small settlement on the edge of the desert.· Settlements started to appear all along the river.· The tools were found in an early Iron Age settlement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + village
· They come from a small village in Laos.
· There are many pretty villages nearby.
(=one that is far away from larger towns)· We need to get food aid to the more remote villages.
(=one where there is not a lot of activity)· Downham was a sleepy little village, with a road barely wide enough for one car.
· Once a fishing village, this is now a friendly, lively international resort.
· The paths lead to picturesque mountain villages.
village + NOUN· A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.
(=area of grass for everyone to use)· a cricket match on the village green
(=all the activities in a village)· She had always taken an active part in village life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· Outside the capital, most people live in village communities.
(=that a lot of people leave each day to travel to work)· It’s a commuter town about 40 miles from London.
British English:· She knew from village gossip how Harry had treated his first wife.
(=used by people who live in a place) A coffee morning is to be held in the village hall.
A coffee morning is to be held in the village hall.· They were sitting in the shade of a tree beside the village pond.
(=all the people in a school, country etc) The whole town came out for the parade.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE The whole town came out for the parade.· In 1954, she took an exposed, simple cottage in the north eastern fishing village of Catterline.· Settlement was concentrated in fishing villages on the tributaries of the Snake, Clearwater and Salmon Rivers.· Both worry about the fishing villages whose livelihood has been commercial whaling.· Two young lads from Hafnarfjödur, a small fishing village near Reykjavik, were going like loonies.· Destination: the tiny fishing village of St Abbs on the Berwickshire coast, seven miles north from Berwick-upon-Tweed.· I saw the small fishing villages where my father had found his men.· It's also an unspoilt farming and sponge fishing village of great character.· Yokohama had been a mere fishing village in 1853, and Kobe, too, owed its expansion to foreign trade.
· The rock and roll global village.· We are not hammering together a cozy global village.· We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening.· We do have a global village, more and more all the time.· The world was not the global village we are used to today.· The dream of the unified global village has given way to the reality of global fragmentation and diversity.· The global village of which we all speak carelessly is at most a global convenience store.
· It's a small, ordinary little village, its only claim to fame the castle, and the burial mounds.· When I first discovered that little village, it was this isolated little world.· Arthur and I went for long walks - and that little village was the best place in the world.· Almost every hill is crowned with a picture-perfect little walled village.· Mr Gordon finds a Musician Mr Gordon was the teacher at the little village school.· In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower.
· The bulk of his clients comprise severely disturbed psychotic patients from nearby villages and towns.· The toll mounted Friday when three Christians were found slain in sugar cane fields in the nearby village of El Zuheir.· Thousands of people carry firewood on their heads to Ranchi every day from nearby villages.· Born in the nearby Mena village, Furjani is a tall man whose dark complexion conveys his sub-Saharan ancestry.· The majority were families from the nearby villages but there were also numerous railway enthusiasts from further afield.· I drove the women into the nearby village for provisions, which completely turned their heads.· The influx of large numbers of construction workers had inevitably caused disruption in the nearby villages, especially the closest, Stogursey.· Peasants in black pajamas and conic straw hats had flowed in from nearby villages to mingle with merchants and mandarins.
· Further down the island, little picturesque old villages nestle into the countryside.· The main advantage of building this way is the houses fit into old villages so well.· The old village school, which closed in 1968, is now a private house and schoolchildren go by bus to Howden.· These engulfed some older villages, such as Gosforth, which are now smaller shopping centres within the conurbation.· It is their village now, just as much as it was for the old village families.· And for the youngsters, the Old Swan makes the old village hall seem like a hangover.· I live in Glyn-Neath, West Glamorgan, an old pit village with huge unemployment.· Garda Garda is a charming old village that is very easy on the eye.
· Further down the island, little picturesque old villages nestle into the countryside.· Craigendarroch is the perfect base for discovering the surrounding countryside with its bustling towns, and picturesque villages.· The picturesque stone-walled villages and farms blend into the natural surroundings and add to their beauty.· There is also a very pretty walk here, along the old railway line to another picturesque village, Little Melford.· Goblin Ha'Hotel Charming inn situated in picturesque village at the foot of the Lammermuirs.· Once the thriving port of Linlithgow, Blackness is a picturesque village with a heavily fortified castle.· In those days it was a picturesque village a couple of miles from the pleasant and compact town.
· Now it is a pretty village, much frequented by tourists.· This pretty little village of narrow lanes and attractive cottages is in fact a Royal Village.· Cycling: Cycle hire is available in the town centre and many pretty villages are within easy reach.· Alfriston is a very pretty village with a children's zoo.
· Amelie pushed on through Dax, stopping overnight in remote villages and negotiating the various command posts nervously.· The blast last week in remote Fanglin village, deep in the southern province of Jiangxi, was massive.· Transports in and out carrying shipments of rice that were dropped into remote villages.· Ancient tradition remains powerful, and stories of witches and snake charmers are still whispered high in the remote mountain villages.· During my stay in a remote village in Kangwon Province, watching me shampoo my hair became a spectacle.· From such humble beginnings in a remote Lincolnshire village he was, however, destined to make his impression on the world.
· The first very fascinating discovery a visitor to Alvingham will make is that this small village has two churches in one churchyard.· Look, we are a small village of 300 inhabitants that lives off tourists visiting our lake.· The water-power age produced hamlets, at the most small villages, gathered around a new mill.· Downchanges and general enthusiastic driving through the small villages was especially appreciated, apparently.· The small village centre is surrounded by arable farms.· Valldemosa A small traditional style village which was the source of inspiration for some of Chopin's most romantic compositions.· Life in a small village could be deadly dull, and Henry had been absolutely charming when he chose to be.· I live in a small village in Suffolk called Wetheringsett.
· The tiny village near Wantage has been plagued with crime.· It is their little tribe, their tiny village.· Miri Ismailov's family in the tiny village of Tatoni are convinced that they know what it is.· The plane was taking the family to the tiny village of Wainwright, 90 miles southwest of Barrow.· Passing through a tiny village called Babylon, the buildings are shabby and unkempt.· We stopped that night in a tiny village in the desert.· She met Sebastian from the tiny village school and told him what had happened.· The third tour takes you to Kobi, a tiny village in South Osetia.
· Once they talked of it in the village shop, the whole village would know by nightfall.· This whole village has gone to pots.· Soon the whole village will know this.· You stank the whole village out.· Thousands died in the Romni region. Whole villages starved to death.· These two greenfield sites were each equal in size to the whole village of 1967.· The whole village was turned inward.
NOUN· The village church, tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane, is dedicated to St Mary.· On Sundays there was a morning service in the village church and an evening hymn-sing in the auditorium.· When he had leisure he went bicycling to Lincolnshire village churches.· The village church is gone, the orphanage is still standing, though one wing of it has been gutted by fire.· Coberley Mill, formerly known as Cubberly, nestles deep in the valley, close to the village church.· They are quietly married in the village church.· Of great interest are the church bells, very fine for a small village church.· The remarkable Black Virgin of Belloc has been transferred from her abandoned mountain sanctuary to the village church of Dorres.
· The second course would have been unusual and encouraging - and leadership in the village community would probably have fallen to him.· The concept of work most certainly came into being in the Neolithic village community.· Meanwhile paint from Porter will put the finishing touches to an entire village community in the United States.· Usually, the plains were left to be run by native princes or village communities.· The first of these is a fairly widespread concurrence about the demise of the traditional village community.· At the same time the new tax system implied a fundamental change in the nature and purpose of the village community.· Such is the price a silversmith's son may have had to pay to achieve respectability in a Victorian village community.· The structure and ethos of the village community remained pivotal to the whole system.
· Members also agreed to ask Darlington Borough Council to plant some more bulbs on the village green.· He walks beside me through the small woods between our subdivision and the Nearing village green.· A memorial was unveiled on the village green on October 4 - the village sign already incorporates a Lancaster.· A terrace of visually pleasing stone cottages facing the neat village green are dated 1846.· Blooming time: More crocuses are to be planted on the village green next year.· Turn left on Main Street, past village green.· The development is mixed tenure including affordable housing, a village school, a village green and a community centre.· From village green to inner-city street, Labour needs to be seen as a respected, radical, and creative presence.
· Domino drive: A domino drive will be held at the village hall tomorrow.· Later that afternoon we walked what seemed like endless miles to the village hall.· We decided to go to a Hogmanay dance in the village hall, and they came along to watch.· Further up the village is the old school, which is now used as the village hall.· The village hall, built in 1912, is a busy and thriving place.· The present Methodist chapel was built in 1902, the former chapel now being part of the village hall.
· This pattern has not been altered by recent changes in village life.· However humble, it was an escape route for them from dead-end Shaanxi village life.· Nevertheless, the vastly expanded social contacts removed a shield of isolation from village life.· She began to think that perhaps village life was not so bad.· It also puts little stress on those problem-solving skills that are vital to the development of village life.· They described village life to each other in intricate detail.· We found it oppressive, inconvenient and village life is horribly nosey.· Like their forebears, they chose subjects to illustrate the many facets of village life.
· The old village school, which closed in 1968, is now a private house and schoolchildren go by bus to Howden.· Opening their hearts to Jane, the brother finds her work in the village school and the sisters listen to her story.· He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe.· She attended only a teachers' institute, then taught in a village school.· Or better still, there was the village school practically next door!· Read in studio A village school is resorting to big business techniques to ensure its survival.· Mr Gordon finds a Musician Mr Gordon was the teacher at the little village school.· Over the last 30 years the Trust has helped build 26 village schools, two hospitals and 12 medical centres.
· Once they talked of it in the village shop, the whole village would know by nightfall.· DivaIi, the festival of lights, would soon be upon us and the village shops were stocked up with fireworks.· Village information scheme for Exmoor Exmoor National Park has decided to set up information agencies in selected village shops.· There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding.· Everyone was hungry, but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away.· Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream.· The many village shops have closed and reopened as video or betting shops, or estate agents.· Probably she went into the Fir Tree or the village shop to get change for those calls.
VERB· We built roads and villages and brought rubber trees and planted them for mile after mile through your wild land.· Now one might say: more fool them, how stupid to build their Alpine villages in the paths of potential avalanches.· The new training school was built as a village with school and church and shop.· In 1948 a group of volunteers from the village started to build a village hall.· When a new junior school was built in a nearby village in the late 1970s, the building became redundant.
· I left the village in 1963.· By the time I left the village, I think everyone in it knew all about me.· The bus will leave the village at 9.30am heading for Carlisle via Hexham.· That is how we leave one village and head for another.· As he left the village he passed the field where he had first seen Tess at the dance.· The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages.· Shelley left the village, after sharing a jug of wine with the Freitas family, and promising to come again soon.· To everyone's surprise, though, she had married at eighteen, and had left the village.
· There are a lot of old people living in this village and we don't want it here.· Yumbu and Minko are a black boy and a black girl who live in this jungle village.· Many are happy to live in the village of Preston - not Lancashire, but Yorkshire.· In those four months he lived in 49 villages.· I lived in the village myself and waited for my students to arrive.· People walked and talked leisurely as if they were still living in a Confucian village.· I would be living now in some village, supporting myself by giving lessons.
· Stiffly, they walked out of the village into the surrounding darkness.· I explained to Phagu that I must, now, walk to that village to ring for the jeep.· It was raining that morning as Sir Maxwell Shaw walked down the village street, a black Labrador at his heels.· I do not care much now about the way the women gape at me when I walk around in the village center.· With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village.· At twilight, he walks in the village called Tandalavi, population a few hundred.· I was walking through a Wirral village and decided to have a soft drink in a pub to cool off.· According to the state police report, witnesses said about 12 men walked into the village shortly after 7 p.m.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1a very small town in the countryside: - The entire village was invited to the banquet.
a little fishing villagevillage school/shop/church etc2the village the people who live in a village: The whole village came to the meeting.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + villagesmall/little/tiny· They come from a small village in Laos.pretty/picturesque· There are many pretty villages nearby.remote (=one that is far away from larger towns)· We need to get food aid to the more remote villages.quiet/sleepy (=one where there is not a lot of activity)· Downham was a sleepy little village, with a road barely wide enough for one car.a fishing village· Once a fishing village, this is now a friendly, lively international resort.a mountain/hilltop village· The paths lead to picturesque mountain villages.village + NOUNthe village hall/school/shop/church· A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.the village green (=area of grass for everyone to use)· a cricket match on the village greenvillage life (=all the activities in a village)· She had always taken an active part in village life.