-ville
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French ville (“town, city”)
Suffix
-ville
- Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city.
- (figurative) Used with an adj. as a mildly intensifying locative, indicating a region of such things.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 26:
- ‘What do you reckon? Far outsville or far insville?’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 26:
Usage notes
- Used for many towns in the English- and French-speaking world.
- Also often used to construct fictional and exemplar placenames, such as Nowheresville and Smallville.
Derived terms
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old French -ville, from Latin vīlla
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ville