Thesaurus: village

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1. n. A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
2. n. a community of people smaller than a town
3. n. a settlement smaller than a town
4. A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top. Syn. -- Village, Hamlet, Town, City. In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold.
5. A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a townor city. Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriagewithout a top.
6. n:100 n. a community of people smaller than a town n. a settlement smaller than a town