VILLAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Village mean? 

• VILLAGE (noun)
  The noun VILLAGE has 3 senses:

1. a community of people smaller than a town

2. a settlement smaller than a town

3. a mainly residential district of Manhattan; 'the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century

  Familiarity information: VILLAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VILLAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A community of people smaller than a town

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

settlement; small town; village

Hypernyms ("village" is a kind of...):

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "village"):

moshav (a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A settlement smaller than a town

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

hamlet; village

Hypernyms ("village" is a kind of...):

settlement (an area where a group of families live together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "village"):

campong; kampong (a native village in Malaysia)

kraal (a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade)

pueblo (a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States)

Instance hyponyms:

Cheddar (a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made)

Sealyham (a village in southwestern Wales where the Sealyham terrier was first bred)

El Alamein (a village to the west of Alexandria on the northern coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942)

Jericho (a village in Palestine near the north end of the Dead Sea; in the Old Testament it was the first place taken by the Israelites under Joshua as they entered the Promised Land)

Jamestown (a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607)

Chancellorsville (a village in northeastern Virginia)

Spotsylvania (a village in northeastern Virginia where battles were fought during the American Civil War)

Yorktown (a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A mainly residential district of Manhattan; 'the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Greenwich Village; Village

Instance hypernyms:

community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)

Holonyms ("Village" is a part of...):

Greater New York; New York; New York City (the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)

 Context examples 

And I say that the day come and the night come for everybody just the same, and that in my village it is no more dark than at Cambell Fort.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I believe that that is the village inn over there?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the old village changed to a new place.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When I wrote last we were about to leave the Indian village where we had been deposited by the Esmeralda.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This morning, the village school opened.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Some curious person from the village, perhaps,” I suggested.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’ll say she was ill, the poor lady! it’s enough that we should have seen her in her shame, without its being the gossip of the village.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know this forest country well, though I was born myself in the Hundred of Easebourne, in the Rape of Chichester, hard by the village of Midhurst.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she ran out of the village, and no one has seen her since.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At the end of three months he went down a third time to the village with Joe.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)