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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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
Beyond those amenities, it’s the people who give the neighborhood its village-like feel, she said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 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
The new visitor center functions as a village-like portal to the gardens, which now get over 350,000 visitors a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2017
The whole country was full of a village-like gossip which caused every man to think that he was a judge of character, when he was not even a judge of facts.
From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
