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.
villages
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pluralof village.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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From villages deep in the Amazon rainforest to the agricultural heartlands in the south and sprawling urban favelas, Brazilians are facing a familiar cast -- with many forced to pick who they least dislike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
"From today, you will have to watch over your villages," Gombagui told around 100 local officials gathered in the village of Tibeita on a recent morning, urging them to "denounce" the prospectors and their accomplices.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
People in nearby villages said U.S. servicemen hadn’t been seen for the past week, leading the locals to presume the men were being kept on base for security reasons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
About 20km south of Taiz, at the al-Monig displacement camp, families who had fled Mokha and villages hit by fighting were arriving, among hundreds of tents.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
“It was questionable whether or not he would live to reach the Indian villages, which were probably his goal,” Roosevelt wrote.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
