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[Noun] | "vil*lage" | \ ˈvi-lij \
1: a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town
2: an incorporated minor municipality
3: the residents of a village
Origin: 14th century ;
Middle English, from Anglo-French vilage, from vil manorial estate, farmstead, from Latin villa;
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[Noun] | "global village"
1: the world viewed as a community in which distance and isolation have been dramatically reduced by electronic media (such as television and the Internet)
Origin: 1959 ;
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[Noun] | "Po*tem*kin village" | \ pə-ˈtem(p)-kən- \
1: an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition
Origin: 1904 ;
Grigori Potëmkin, who supposedly built impressive fake villages along a route Catherine the Great was to travel;
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[Geographical name] | "Elk Grove Village"
1: village in northeastern Illinois northwest of Chicago population 33,127
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[Geographical name] | "Green*wich Village" | \ ˈgre-nich \
1: section of New York City on the lower west side of Manhattan
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[Adjective] | "in*ter*vil*lage" | \ ˌin-tər-ˈvi-lij \
1: occurring between or involving two or more villages
Origin: 1858 ;
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[Noun] | "village"
1: a small residential settlement;
* e.g., " ... we stayed in a charming bed-and-breakfast in a lakeside village "
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# 1 - { village:1487938 }
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[ "village" ]
1: Anything conducted on a small scale, with a very low standard, such as a village fair.
* e.g., ... "This pub is completely village."
# 2 - { village:2826226 }
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[ "village" ]
1: 'Village' is a term used by cricketers (predominantly in England) to refer to either:
* e.g., ... "That Team/shot/bowling is/was absolutely Village!!"
[ "village" ]
2: a) A very poor cricket team/opposition
[ "village" ]
3: b) The literal meaning. A team from outside of major city areas (local teams or non league teams)
[ "village" ]
4: c) Can also be used in describing certain types of agricultural shots played by batsman or certain types of bowling, usually slow and slower!
[ "village" ]
5: d) Has even been known to refer to certain types of cricket gear (cricket pads with buckles, or a cricketer wearing black socks etc)
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[ "village" ]
1: A small town, larger than a hamlet and usually containing between 100 and 2000 people. The population may go up or down depending on the population of surrounding areas.
* e.g., ... South Park is a semi-ficticious village in thestate of Colorado complete with a commercial/shopping district or main street, As is Dancing Rabbit, a growing eco-villiage in Missouri.
[ "village" ]
2: Also a term used to describe the East or Greenwich Village on southeastern Manhattan Island, or for that matter, any semi-self contained community within the dense fabric of a much larger city.
# 4 - { village:4814075 }
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[ "village" ]
1: the equivalence to "ghetto"
* e.g., ... "omg! dude why are you wearing that shirt from dollar general thats so village"
# 5 - { village:341289 }
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[ "village" ]
1: country boy who knows nothing bout cities- eg never been on a bus before, and lives in the middle of a cabbage field
* e.g., ... Scott!!
# 6 - { village:344099 }
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[ "village" ]
1: Village: One with a lack of knowledge regarding city life, the bus system, common sense or anything that can't be simulated in Everquest.
* e.g., ... Village! Shut up!
[ "village" ]
2: Prone to spontaneous outbursts about cabbages, Everquest or some minor injury he picked up whilst braving the sunlight beyond his room.
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[ "village" ]
1: A tiny town, the people are called villagers
* e.g., ... I live in a small village.
# 8 - { village:736733 }
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[ "village" ]
1: To describe an antiquated process or commodity that you can see.
* e.g., ... A Pedal-Powered Electricity Generator? How village!
# 9 - { village:121293 }
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[ "village" ]
1: 1: a small, mostly self-contained settlement of people, usually with connotations of pre-industrial society.
* e.g., ... ''It takes a whole village to raise *a* child'? How about a one-child-per-village limit, then?'
[ "village" ]
2: 2: what some say it takes a whole one of to raise a child.
[ "village" ]
3: 3: what others say it only takes one child to raze.
[ "village" ]
4: 4: what the same others say it takes the idiot of to have a child.
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[ "village" ]
1: A small town, larger than a hamlet and usually containing between 100 and 2000 people. The population may go up or down depending on the population of surrounding areas.
* e.g., ... South Park is a semi-ficticious village in thestate of Colorado complete with a commercial/shopping district or main street, As is Dancing Rabbit, a growing eco-villiage in Missouri.
[ "village" ]
2: Also a term used to describe the East or Greenwich Village on southeastern Manhattan Island, or for that matter, any semi-self contained community within the dense fabric of a much larger city.
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