village

Definition

  • noun: a small town in the country
  • noun: a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town
  • synonyms: town, hamlet, city

Examples

  • fishing/mining 'villages' [=villages in which most people fish/mine as a job]

  • Entire 'villages' come to see the parade.

Movie quotes

  • (..) architect turned chef, who recently invested all the money he ever earned in a new restaurant. And so, this is where l spend my days and years... in this small village in the middle of the city in a house with a blue door... that my wife and l bought together before she left me for a man... (..)
    1999 Notting Hill