1 [C] a very small town situated in a country area:
We visited towns and villages all over Spain. * a fishing / mountain / seaside village * (especially BrE) the village hall / shop * Her books are about village life.
2 (the village) [sing.] (especially BrE) the people who live in a village:
The whole village was invited to the party.
HELPNOTE Do not use village to talk about small towns in the US. In AmE village is used for a small place in another country that seems more old-fashioned than a town in the US.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for village is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is village a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, village is tagged as noun.
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