villagenoun
uk/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/A1 [ C ] a group of houses and other buildings that is smaller than a town, usually in the countryside:
a fishing village
a mountain village
a village shop
a village green (= an area of grass in the middle of a village)
Many people come from the outlying/surrounding villages to work in the town.
[ C usually singular, + sing/pl verb ] all the people who live in a village:
The village is/are campaigning for a by-pass to be built.
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- It's a little fishing village with very narrow streets.
- Our farm is a few miles north of the village.
- The village has remained basically unchanged for over 300 years.
- Many villages have been cut off by the heavy snow.
- Because I live in a remote village, I regard my car as an essential.
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Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
- aerotropolis
- backwater
- bedroom community
- Cantabrigian
- capital
- conurbation
- county borough
- dormitory town
- ghost town
- Greater
- hill station
- hometown
- megacity
- metropolis
- one-horse town
- port
- settlement
- small-town
- town
- urbanite
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People who live or settle somewhere