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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;

    [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 ;

    [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;

    [Geographical name]  | "Elk Grove Village" 


    1: village in northeastern Illinois northwest of Chicago population 33,127

    [Geographical name]  | "Green*wich Village" | \ ˈgre-nich \


    1: section of New York City on the lower west side of Manhattan

    [Adjective]  | "in*ter*vil*lage" | \ ˌin-tər-ˈvi-lij \


    1: occurring between or involving two or more villages


    Origin: 1858 ;

    [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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    [Noun]  | "Potemkin village" 


    1: as in Trojan horse, fig leaf;


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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." 

     [ "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)

     [ "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.

     [ "village" ]

    1: the equivalence to "ghetto"

      * e.g.,  ... "omg! dude why are you wearing that shirt from dollar general thats so village" 

     [ "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!! 

     [ "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.

     [ "village" ]

    1: A tiny town, the people are called villagers

      * e.g.,  ... I live in a small village. 

     [ "village" ]

    1: To describe an antiquated process or commodity that you can see.

      * e.g.,  ... A Pedal-Powered Electricity Generator? How village! 

     [ "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.

     [ "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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