noun

• 1A group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area.

  ‘pretty fishing villages’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the village of Claxby’
  • ‘all the village could do was listen’
  • ‘the village hall’
  • ‘The population was essentially rural with numerous small villages and towns housing less than 1000 people.’
  • ‘The parish council has also voiced its unease at more houses in the village and wants the area for community use.’
  • ‘The building later became the village hall, then a youth hostel with community use in the winter.’
  • ‘The role of women differs greatly between middle-class urban areas and rural villages.’
  • ‘In villages and rural areas, Clifden and Carraroe are likely to see growth in employment and services.’
  • ‘In rural areas, villages are often composed of kin groups that offer support during difficult times.’
  • ‘It has a busy town of characteristic corrugated iron buildings, and fishing villages of leaf houses built on poles over the water.’
  • ‘It enhances the rural areas and towns and villages look so much better when litter free.’
  • ‘Today one increasingly finds modern block and cement houses in both provincial villages and urban areas.’
  • ‘The main town would be the central point of an area with the outriding hamlets and villages contributing to the town's collection.’
  • ‘This space is a maze of back roads, a pattern of small hills, fine houses and pretty little villages.’
  • ‘People can vote at the village post office, in the village hall or post their ballot slip to the county council.’
  • ‘The coast I like, towns, villages, and even hamlets I like, but the countryside and I do not really get on.’
  • ‘The charity is even planning a portable gym that can be packed in a van and taken to village halls in the area.’
  • ‘In seaside towns and villages, tourism and fishing are important parts of the economy.’
  • ‘The Swinford / Charlestown route will run on Tuesdays and will connect towns and villages in the area.’
  • ‘In many towns and villages, such a house acts not only as a place to live, but also as a tourist attraction, bringing visitors in their droves.’
  • ‘Thankfully there are many more enlightened towns and villages in the area that welcome visitors however they may travel.’
  • ‘Deaths can be prevented by drivers slowing down for the sake of our kids, particularly in towns, villages and on rural roads.’

  Synonyms

  community, colony, outpost, encampment

  1. 1.1A self-contained district or community within a town or city, regarded as having features characteristic of village life.
     ‘the Olympic village’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Although I live in the city now, when I was small I lived in a village within the city.’
     • ‘The famous village within a city is a conservation area and its imposing stone buildings are listed.’
     • ‘The area proposed for the Olympic Village is the Lower Lea Valley in East London.’
     Synonyms

     community, district, neighbourhood, regional, city, town, municipal, provincial, village, parish, parish-pump, parochial
  2. 1.2US A small municipality with limited corporate powers.

• 2Australian, New Zealand A select suburban shopping centre.