village
noun
a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.
village-like
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a word derived from
village.
Example Sentences
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In May, he unveiled Sublime Sand, a village-like extension across the road, this time with 43 villas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Blink, and you might well miss something a little unusual about the quaint, almost village-like, centre of Old Harlow in Essex.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023
But deadly strikes, when they do occur, send ripples of grief through a sprawling metropolis that in some respects retains a village-like atmosphere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
However, both writers are concerned with closed societies — villages, or the village-like neighborhoods of London and Dublin, where you constantly encounter the same people, all poking into your private business and gossiping about it.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022
The last—Hampshire's little Cuzco—is a small and village-like old red brick town, unapproached by a railroad and unimproved, therefore still beautiful, as were all places in other, better, less civilized days.
From Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
