Words / A2

VIL-ij/ˈvɪlɪdʒ/

A handful of houses and a shop can make a village — a small country settlement, smaller than a town. In a village, a village hall. The countryside is the rural landscape; a village is the community. A hamlet is even smaller. A villager lives there.

Meaning

A small group of houses in the country, smaller than a town.

Examples

• “He grew up in a village.”
• “There is only one bus from the village each morning.”
• “They moved from the city to a quiet village.”

Good to know

in a village. Smaller than town/city. Landscape: countryside. Person: villager.

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