village

From Middle English village, from Old French village, from Latin vīllāticus, ultimately from Latin villa (English villa).

Broadly overtook Old English wic, þorp, and ham.

The Philippine sense is due to its frequent use in the names of gated communities.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒ/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ʋɪleːdʒ/

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• Hyphenation: vil‧lage
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪdʒ

village (plural villages)

2. A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

   There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]

   • 1993, Derek A. Scott, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2018, page 188:

     The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.

   • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 1 November 2020, page 28:

     Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.

   • 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     It’s just offshore from private property inaccessible to the general public, so a good way to approach the rock is by kayak, which can be rented in the small village of Port Austin.

3. (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
4. (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
6. (Philippines) An exclusive gated community; a subdivision.

   There are six blocks in our village, each having ten lots.

• thorp (archaic)

• settlement

• villa
• -wich
• wick

From Latin villaticus, from villa.

• IPA^(key): /vi.laʒ/

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village m (plural villages)

1. village
2. (Louisiana) town, city

• idiot du village

• villageois

• “village”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• vilage

village m (plural villages)

1. village