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-ville

  1. a combining form extracted from placenames ending in -ville, used in the coinage of informal nonce words, usually pejorative, that characterize a place, person, group, or situation ( dullsville; disasterville; Mediaville ) or that name a condition ( embarrassmentville; gloomsville ).


-ville

combining form

  1. slang.
    (denoting) a place, condition, or quality with a character as specified

    dragsville

    squaresville

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ville1

Ultimately from French ville “city”; bidonville
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Example Sentences

Palais Galliera, Musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris, open September 28 through January 26.

This scenery “reminded him how pretty Ville Rose still was.”

Draper purchased a cool blue 1962 Cadillac Coupe de Ville when he became a partner at Sterling Cooper.

Wolfe was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and at the age of five, moved to Pétion-Ville, Haiti, where she grew up.

The Hotel de Ville was the appointed place of rendezvous for the swarming multitudes.

The proceedings of the day end with a benediction at an altar erected in front of the Htel de Ville.

The carillon rung from the Belfry, guns were fired, and a ceremony in honour of the event took place in the Htel de Ville.

From this Htel de Ville 'the numerous statuettes with which the building was once embellished have all disappeared.'

Thence they went to the market-place, which was between the church and the Htel de Ville.

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