Meaning of village in English

village

noun

/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/ us

/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/

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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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village

noun [ C ]

/ˈvɪl·ɪdʒ/

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a group of houses, stores, and other buildings which is smaller than a town:

We live just outside the village of Larchmont.

A village is also the people who live in a village:

The whole village came out for the parade.

(Definition of village from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of village

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Facilities such as schools and health posts have been built in most such villages, but are said to be poorly stocked and staffed.

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All fuel, for homes and for industry, has to be brought to the towns and villages which are isolated and small.

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Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns.

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The main cause for this was the great extent of poverty in both towns and villages.

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They would also naturally form themselves into these villages, agreeing to live near together for their mutual security.

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Though these villages exhibit a low level of infrastructural development, common property in both land and water is not a new concept in these villages.

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Controlling for soil quality with regional dummies, we regressed the biomass density on annual rainfall in the villages for which biomass density data were available.

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Ground-truthing and field checks were made by resurveying selected villages using a light aircraft and a jeep.

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Initially, intercept dummies were introduced to represent these three categories of villages.

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Since any villager is eligible, the pool of managerial candidates refers to all the villagers in our sample villages.

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Hence, there are still many villages in our sample that have yet to reform.

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They had little contact with the people living in the villages and consequently were able to maintain their life style.

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The members of 92 households from 20 villages were interviewed taking a 35% (+5%) sample from the 238 households.

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In addition, the integration of different ethnic groups in the villages was expected to lead to better relations.

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The fragmentation of villages and the formation of new villages by inhabitants of existing ones can be seen as another dimension of the same phenomenon.

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Collocations with village

village

These are words often used in combination with village.

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abandoned village

It has a pleasant canyon and an abandoned village.

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ancestral village

He was deeply engaged in a transnational clan organisation and frequently came to his ancestral village to worship his lineage's ancestors.

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ancient village

Woods and hedge-lined pastures, ancient village churches and chateaux contribute to its appeal.

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Translations of village

in Chinese (Traditional)

村莊, 村子, 全體村民…

Meaning of village in English

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