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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Village  \Vil"lage\  (?;  48),  n.  [F.,  fr  L.  villaticus  belonging 
  to  a  country  house  or  villa.  See  {Villa},  and  cf 
  {Villatic}.] 
  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}. 
 
  Usage:  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 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  village 
  n  1:  a  community  of  people  smaller  than  a  town  [syn:  {small  town}, 
  {settlement}] 
  2:  a  settlement  smaller  than  a  town  [syn:  {hamlet}] 
  3:  a  mainly  residential  district  of  Manhattan;  "the  Village" 
  became  a  home  for  many  writers  and  artists  in  the  20th 
  century  [syn:  {Greenwich  Village},  {Village}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Village,  AR 
  Zip  code(s):  71769 
  Village,  TX 
  Zip  code(s):  75205 




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