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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Village \Vil"lage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr L. villaticus belonging to a country house or villa. See {Villa}, and cf {Villatic}.] A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. {Village cart}, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top Syn: {Village}, {Hamlet}, {Town}, {City}. Usage: In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is in the legal sense an incorporated borough town, which is or has been the place of a bishop's see In the United States these distinctions do not hold From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: village n 1: a community of people smaller than a town [syn: {small town}, {settlement}] 2: a settlement smaller than a town [syn: {hamlet}] 3: a mainly residential district of Manhattan; "the Village" became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century [syn: {Greenwich Village}, {Village}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Village, AR Zip code(s): 71769 Village, TX Zip code(s): 75205
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