Meaning & use

village

noun·Everyday

A small community of houses and buildings, smaller than a town, usually in a rural area.

See it in a sentence

The tourists wandered through a quiet fishing village on the coast.

Everyone in the small mountain village knew each other by name.

A note on using this word

Generally implies a close-knit rural community, smaller and more informal than a town or city.

Words with a similar meaning

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Words with an opposite meaning

citymetropolis

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