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As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
Simon Beaufoy

Meaning of "village" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VILLAGE

From Old French, from ville farm, from Latin: villa.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF VILLAGE

village  [ˈvɪlɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VILLAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Village is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VILLAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practise subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. In many cultures, towns and cities were few, with only a small proportion of the population living in them. The Industrial Revolution attracted people in larger numbers to work in mills and factories; the concentration of people caused many villages to grow into towns and cities. This also enabled specialization of labor and crafts, and development of many trades.

Definition of village in the English dictionary

The first definition of village in the dictionary is a small group of houses in a country area, larger than a hamlet. Other definition of village is the inhabitants of such a community collectively. Village is also an incorporated municipality smaller than a town in various parts of the US and Canada.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VILLAGE


cartilage
ˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ
curtilage
ˈkɜːtɪlɪdʒ
disprivilege
dɪsˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ
ensilage
ˈɛnsɪlɪdʒ
fibrocartilage
ˌfaɪbrəʊˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ
grillage
ˈɡrɪlɪdʒ
intervillage
ˌɪntəˈvɪlɪdʒ
milage
ˈmaɪlɪdʒ
mileage
ˈmaɪlɪdʒ
millage
ˈmɪlɪdʒ
pillage
ˈpɪlɪdʒ
privilege
ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ
sacrilege
ˈsækrɪlɪdʒ
silage
ˈsaɪlɪdʒ
sortilege
ˈsɔːtɪlɪdʒ
spillage
ˈspɪlɪdʒ
spoilage
ˈspɔɪlɪdʒ
tillage
ˈtɪlɪdʒ
treillage
ˈtreɪlɪdʒ
tutelage
ˈtjuːtɪlɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VILLAGE

villa
villa home
villa-like
Villa-Lobos
Villach
villadom
village college
village green
village hall
village idiot
village school
village-like
villager
villagery
villagisation
villagization
Villahermosa
villain
villainage
villainess

WORDS THAT END LIKE VILLAGE

athlete´s village
bricolage
collage
corporate village
enallage
fishing village
fullage
global village
Greenwich Village
holiday village
hypallage
maquillage
no-tillage
outlet village
shopping village
smallage
stillage
sullage
tallage
tollage
ullage

Synonyms and antonyms of village in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «village» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VILLAGE

Find out the translation of village to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of village from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «village» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

村庄
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pueblo
570 millions of speakers

English

village
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गांव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قَرْيَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

деревня
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vila
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

village
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kampung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dorf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마을
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Desa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிராமம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गाव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

köy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paese
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wieś
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

село
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χωριό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dorpie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

by
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

landsby
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of village

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VILLAGE»

The term «village» is very widely used and occupies the 2.019 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VILLAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «village» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «village» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about village

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10 QUOTES WITH «VILLAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word village.
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Diane Abbott
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
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Sholom Aleichem
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
3
Dennis Banks
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
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Simon Beaufoy
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
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Annie Besant
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
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Brian Blessed
My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.
7
Patrick Chappatte
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
8
Harry Crosby
I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.
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George Armstrong Custer
Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.
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Domenico Dolce
I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VILLAGE»

Discover the use of village in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to village and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People
By narrowing down the world's population to a village of one hundred people, the author offers up some surprising statistics about religion, food, water, nationalities, language, age, and education.
David J. Smith, 2002
2
It Takes a Village
This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2012
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A Child From The Village
" "A Child from the Village was written just prior to Qutb's conversion to the Islamist cause and reflects his concerns for social justice.
Sayyid Quṭb, Dr. John Calvert, William E. Shepard, 2004
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Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
One might even see the story of early Sadbury as a type of local morality play, replete with Devil, Greed, and Ambition, opposed by both Faith and Prudence.
Sumner Chilton Powell, 1970
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The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870
"The Village of Cannibals" is a fascinating inquiry into the social and political ingredients of an alchemy that transformed ordinary people into brutal executioners in nineteenth-century France.
Alain Corbin, 1993
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The Early Mesoamerican Village: UPDATED EDITION
This is a seminal tract on scientific method in archaeology and a series of studies on formative Mesoamerica that has influenced generations of archaeologist. A new Foreword by Jeremy Sabloff is featured in this edition.
Kent V Flannery, Jeremy A Sabloff, 2009
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Indian Village
Published in 1998, Indian Village is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy.
S.C. Dube, 2012
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Chen Village Under Mao and Deng
Chen Village Under Mao and Deng includes not only the bulk of the original text of Chen Village, but also three new chapters on village life under Deng: gripping descriptions of the village leader's purge, the rapid industrialization of the ...
Anita Chan, Jonathan Unger, 1992
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Globalization and Media: Global Village of Babel
This lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding globalization. Indeed, Jack Lule convincingly shows that globalization could not have occurred without media.
Jack Lule, 2012
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Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
This book chronicles the local histories written by modern Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed in the 1948 war.
Rochelle Davis, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VILLAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term village is used in the context of the following news items.
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Life in Susiya, the Palestinian village under threat from Israeli …
Israeli authorities have denied the villagers permission to build, in part because they say the village does not have proper infrastructure, and because those who ... «CNN, Jul 15»
2
Golf Stars Urged to Stay in Olympic Village During Rio Games
The head of the IOC is urging the world's top golfers to ditch the luxury hotels and "share the Olympic spirit" by staying in the athletes' village when the sport ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
3
Mali: Gunmen attack village near Ivory Coast border
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Gunmen identifying as Islamic extremists attacked and briefly occupied a village in southern Mali near Ivory Coast on Sunday before ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
4
Crackdown on Albanian marijuana village after fatal shooting
1 of 2 Medical staff transport a police officer to a hospital after he was injured in a shootout in the village of Lazarat, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of the ... «The Seattle Times, Jun 15»
5
Spain's 'Fort Kill Jews' village changes name
The name of a Spanish village that translates as "Fort Kill Jews" has been changed following a referendum and local government approval. Castrillo Matajudios ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
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Search for bodies in Nepal village suspended due to avalanches
Officials remained unsure how many people were in Langtang village, in the heart of a popular trekking and climbing area, when the earthquake and landslide ... «Reuters, May 15»
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Bicester Village fire at Carluccio's restaurant
A large fire broke out in a restaurant at a major shopping outlet in Oxfordshire. Bicester Village was shut after the fire started at about 08:45 BST. As the fire took ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
8
ISIL attacks Syrian village, kills scores
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed at least 37 people in a Syrian village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the country's civil ... «Al Jazeera America, Mar 15»
9
Video Shows Moment Of East Village Explosion
Security camera video has surfaced showing the powerful explosion that rocked an East Village tenement yesterday afternoon, bringing down three buildings ... «Gothamist, Mar 15»
10
Improper Access to Gas Line Eyed as Cause of East Village Explosion
Inspectors with Con Ed had been to the East Village building to check on ongoing work to upgrade gas service. The utility said the work didn't pass inspection, ... «NBC New York, Mar 15»

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