village

1. 1.

   a community of people smaller than a town

   Synonymssmall townsettlement

   Broadercommunity

   Narrowermoshav
2. 2.

   a settlement smaller than a town

   Synonymshamlet

   Broadersettlement

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3. 3.

   a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century

   SynonymsGreenwich Village

   Broaderresidential district

   Part ofNew York

Other forms of village

plural

villages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about village

What does village mean?

village means "a community of people smaller than a town". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in village?

village has 2 syllables: vil-lage. The stress falls on "vil". In IPA it is /ˈvɪlədʒ/.

What is another word for village?

Close synonyms include small town, settlement, hamlet, Greenwich Village. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is village a common word?

village is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.