Definition of village Village

/vɪˈlʌʤ/ - [viluj] - vil•lage

We found 11 definitions of village from 6 different sources.

What does village mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: villages
village - a settlement smaller than a town
		hamlet
		settlement something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
		campong, kampong a native village in Malaysia
		kraal a pen for livestock in southern Africa
		pueblo a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States
village - a community of people smaller than a town
		small town, settlement
		community (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
village - a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century
		Greenwich Village, Village

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Wiktionary

village (Noun)
A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
village (Noun)
A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
village (Noun)
A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

village (n.)
A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

village
A group of houses and other buildings, such as a church, a school and some shops, which is smaller than a town, usually in the countryside.
village
Small town or part of it.

Wikipedia

A village is a place where people live, normally in the countryside. It is usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town or city. In the past, villages were where most people lived. After the Industrial Revolution, when people started making a lot of things in factories, people lived more in towns. Moving to towns is called urbanization.

Villages in the past.

There have been many sorts of villages and ways of village life. But usually, villages were small, with only 5 to 30 families. Homes were together, so people were with friends and felt safe. They grew food on the land by the village.

England.

In England the biggest difference between a hamlet and a village is that villages have a church. The difference between a village and a town is that the town has a market.

There are a lot of villages which people say are the biggest village in England. Some are Cranleigh in Surrey, Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, both Haddenham and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, Braunton in Devon, Birchington in Kent, Horsforth in West Yorkshire, Street in Somerset, Bembridge on the Isle of Wight, Ruskington in Lincolnshire and Kidlington in Oxfordshire.

Incorporated villages.

In twenty US states, a "village" is a sort of local government, similar to a city but with less power and for a smaller place. But this is not so in all the United States. In many states, there are villages which are bigger than the smallest cities in the state. The difference is not the population, it is how