village

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlɪdʒ/
• Hyphenation: vil‧lage
• Rhymes: -ɪlədʒ

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Noun

village (plural villages)

1. A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict^[1]:

     […] 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, […]

   • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, 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.

   There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.

2. (Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
3. (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.

Synonyms

• thorp (archaic)

Hypernyms

• settlement

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of village

• eco-village

• global village

• Olympic village

• Potemkin village

Derived terms

• villager

Related terms

• villa
• village bicycle/bike
• village cart
• village green
• village idiot
• -wich
• wick

Translations

a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town

• Afrikaans: dorpie
• Ainu: コタン (kotan)
• Albanian: fshat (sq) m, katund (sq) m
• Alviri-Vidari:

  Vidari: دیه‏‎ (diye)

• Amharic: መንደር (mändär)
• Arabic: قَرْيَة‏‎ (ar) f (qarya)

  Egyptian Arabic: قرية‏‎ f (qarya), كفر‏‎ m (kafr), نجع‏‎ m (nagʿ), نحية‏‎ f (naḥya)

• Armenian: գյուղ (hy) (gyuł), շեն (hy) (šen)
• Asturian: aldea (ast) f
• Azeri: kənd (az), qışlaq
• Baekje: 夫里 (buri)
• Baluchi: ہلک‏‎ (halk)
• Bashkir: ауыл (awïl)
• Basque: herrixka
• Belarusian: весь f (vjesʹ), вёска f (vjóska), сяло́ n (sjaló)
• Bengali: গ্রাম (bn) (gram)
• Breton: bourcʼh (br), gwig, pennkêr
• Bulgarian: село́ (bg) n (seló)
• Burmese: ရွာ (my) (rwa), ဇနပုဒ် (my) (ja.na.pud)
• Catalan: poble (ca) m
• Central Mazahua: ts'ijñiñi
• Chamicuro: chi'nashtalichi
• Chichewa: mudzi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 村 (zh) (cūn), 鄉村 (zh), 乡村 (zh) (xiāngcūn), 農村 (zh), 农村 (zh) (nóngcūn), 村子 (zh) (cūnzi), 村莊 (zh), 村庄 (zh) (cūnzhuāng)

• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ϯⲙⲓ (timi)

  Sahidic: ϯⲙⲉ (time)

• Czech: vesnice (cs) f, ves (cs) f, dědina (cs) f
• Danish: landsby (da) c, by (da) c
• Dutch: dorp (nl) n
• Elfdalian: by m
• Esperanto: vilaĝo
• Estonian: küla (et)
• Faroese: bygd f
• Finnish: kylä (fi), kirkonkylä (fi)
• French: village (fr) m
• Friulian: paîs
• Galician: vila (gl) f, aldea (gl) f, lugar (gl) m
• Georgian: სოფელი (sopeli), შენი (šeni)
• German: Dorf (de) n
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 n (weihs)
• Greek: χωριό (el) n (chorió)
• Greenlandic: illoqarfik (kl)
• Gujarati: ગામ (gu) (gām)
• Hausa: ƙauye m
• Hebrew: כְּפָר‏‎ (he) m (kfar)
• Hindi: गांव m (gānv)
• Hungarian: falu (hu)
• Icelandic: þorp (is) n
• Ido: vilajo (io)
• Indonesian: desa (id), kampung (id)
• Irish: sráidbhaile (ga) m, gráigbhaile m
• Italian: villaggio (it) m, borgo (it) m, paese (it)
• Japanese: 村 (ja) (むら, mura), むら (ja) (mura), 田舎 (ja) (いなか, inaka) (country)
• Javanese: désa
• Kannada: ಗ್ರಾಮ (kn) (grāma)
• Kazakh: ауыл (kk) (awıl), қыстау (qıstaw)
• Khmer: ភូមិ (km) (pūm)
• Korean: 마을 (ko) (ma-eul)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: gund (ku) m

  Sorani: دێ‏‎ (dê), گوند‏‎ (gund)

• Kyrgyz: айыл (ky) (ayıl), кыштак (kıştak), деревня (ky) (derevnya)
• Ladin: paeje
• Lao: ບ້ານ (bān), ໝູ່ບ້ານ (lo) (mū bān)
• Latgalian: sola, cīms
• Latin: rus (la) n
• Latvian: ciems m
• Lithuanian: kaimas (lt) m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: loug (Gronings), dörp (Gronings)

  German Low German: Dörp (nds) n, Derp n

• Luxembourgish: Duerf n
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: село n (selo)

• Malay:

  Jawi: کامڤوڠ‏‎

  Rumi: kampung (ms) / kampong

• Malayalam: ഗ്രാമം (ml) (grāmaṃ)
• Maltese: villaġġ (mt) m
• Manx: balley beg m
• Maori: kāinga
• Marathi: गाव n (gāv), खेडे n (kheḍe)
• Mongolian: тосгон (mn) (tosgon), гацаа (mn) (gatsaa)
• Nogai: авыл (avıl)
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: taarep n

  Helgoland: Dörp m

  Sylt: Tērp n

• Northern Sami: gilli, girkogilli, márkan
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: landsby (no), torp n
• Occitan: vilatge (oc)
• Old Portuguese: vila f
• Pali:

  Devanagari: गामो m (gāmo)

  Latin: gāmo m

• Pashto: کلی‏‎ m (kəlai)
• Persian: روستا‏‎ (fa) (rustâ), ده‏‎ (fa) (deh), قشلاق‏‎ (fa) (qešlâq)
• Phoenician: 𐤊𐤐𐤓‏‎ m (kpr)
• Polish: wieś (pl) f, wioska (pl) f
• Portuguese: aldeia (pt) f, vila (pt) f, povoado (pt) m
• Quechua: llaqta (qu), ayllu
• Romanian: sat (ro) n
• Romansch: vischnanca f
• Russian: дере́вня (ru) f (derévnja), село́ (ru) n (seló), (Central Asia) кишла́к (ru) m (kišlák), (Central Asia, Caucasus) ау́л (ru) m (aúl)
• Sa: ere
• Sanskrit: ग्राम (sa) (grāma)
• Santali: ᱚᱛᱳ (ato)
• Sardinian: bidda f
• Saterland Frisian: Täärp
• Scots: veelage
• Scottish Gaelic: baile beag m, clachan m, baile-dùthchail m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: село n

  Roman: selo (sh) n

• Shan: ဝၢၼ်ႈ (waan;)
• Sicilian: villaggiu (scn) m, paisi (scn)
• Sinhalese: ගම (gama)
• Slovak: dedina (sk) f
• Slovene: vas (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wjas f

• Spanish: aldea (es) f, pueblo (es) m
• Swahili: kijiji (sw)
• Swedish: by (sv) c
• Tagalog: nayon (tl)
• Tajik: русто (rusto), деҳ (deh), деҳа (tg) (deha), қишлоқ (tg) (qišloq)
• Talysh: ди (di)
• Tamil: கிராமம் (ta) (kirāmam), கிராமம் (ta) (kirāmam)
• Tarifit: ḍḍšā m
• Tatar: авыл (tt) (awıl)
• Telugu: గ్రామం (te) (grāmaṃ)
• Tetum: suku
• Thai: หมู่บ้าน (th) (mùu-bâan)
• Tigrinya: ቍሸት (ḳʷəšät)
• Tolai: gunan
• Tongan: kolo
• Turkish: köy (tr), nahiye (tr)
• Turkmen: oba, gyşlak
• Tuvan: көдээ суур (ködää suur)
• Udi: аиз (aiz)
• Ukrainian: село́ (uk) n (seló)
• Urdu: گانو‏‎ m (gānv)
• Uyghur: كەنت‏‎ (ug) (kent), يېزا‏‎ (ug) (yëza)
• Uzbek: qishloq (uz)
• Vietnamese: làng (vi), làng quê
• Volapük: vilag (vo), (diminutive) vilagil (vo)
• Welsh: llan f, pentref (cy) m
• West Frisian: doarp (fy) n
• Yiddish: דאָרף‏‎ n (dorf)
• Zhuang: mbanj

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: cry · step · turning · #812: village · quickly · lie · supposed

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French

Etymology

From Latin villaticus, from villa.

Pronunciation

• Audio (un village)

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• IPA^(key): /vilaʒ/

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village

Related terms

• villageois

Further reading

• “village” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• vilage

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village