'Village' definitions:

Definition of 'village'

(from WordNet)
noun
A community of people smaller than a town [syn: village, small town, settlement]
noun
A settlement smaller than a town [syn: village, hamlet]
noun
A mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century [syn: Greenwich Village, Village]

Definition of 'Village'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'village'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Village'