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VILLAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A community of people smaller than a town
Synonyms:
settlement; small town; village
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("village" is a kind of...):
community (a group of people living in a particular local area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "village"):
moshav (a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A settlement smaller than a town
Synonyms:
hamlet; village
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("village" is a kind of...):
settlement (an area where a group of families live together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "village"):
campong; kampong (a native village in Malaysia)
kraal (a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade)
pueblo (a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States)
Instance hyponyms:
Cheddar (a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made)
Sealyham (a village in southwestern Wales where the Sealyham terrier was first bred)
El Alamein (a village to the west of Alexandria on the northern coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942)
Jericho (a village in Palestine near the north end of the Dead Sea; in the Old Testament it was the first place taken by the Israelites under Joshua as they entered the Promised Land)
Jamestown (a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607)
Chancellorsville (a village in northeastern Virginia)
Spotsylvania (a village in northeastern Virginia where battles were fought during the American Civil War)
Yorktown (a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A mainly residential district of Manhattan; 'the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)
Holonyms ("Village" is a part of...):
Greater New York; New York; New York City (the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)
Context examples:
Maybe groups needed to be big to protect their villages and fields.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
At length I arrived at the village of Chamounix.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
If I were to shout for help as we pass through the village—
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The first that occurred was not least in interest: the appearance of Henry Crawford and his sister walking together through the village as he rode into it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"I am going into the village to see my horses," said he, "as you are not yet ready for breakfast; I shall be back again presently."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
No officer is ever to enter into my house again, nor even to pass through the village.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A cottage in some retired village would be ecstasy.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
By little and little, when I come to a new village or that, among the poor people, I found they know'd about me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Since he has been driven from England, will he not avoid it, as a tiger does the village from which he has been hunted?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
