village

as in hamlet
a small residential settlement we stayed in a charming bed-and-breakfast in a lakeside village

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Recent Examples of village Cold is never far from mind in Netflix’s North of North, set in a remote village deep in the Arctic region of Canada. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025 Though the defenses devised by Perrin hold for a long time despite there being only a grand total of three professional soldiers in the entire village — Faile, Bain, and Chiad — the good guys are betrayed from within. Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025 On Sunday, Russia said its troops had seized the village of Basivka in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region -- opposite Kursk -- and were battering Ukrainian forces in different settlements. Reuters, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025 He was brought to a torture chamber in the nearby village of Balaklia, where many of those detained passed through, prosecutors in the Kharkiv region told ABC News. Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for village

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“Village.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/village. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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