Hypertext Webster Gateway: "village"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Village \Vil"lage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. L. villaticus belonging
to a country house or villa. See {Villa}, and cf.
{Villatic}.]
A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town
or city.
{Village cart}, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage
without a top.
Syn: {Village}, {Hamlet}, {Town}, {City}.
Usage: In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses,
too small to have a parish church. A village has a
church, but no market. A town has both a market and a
church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an
incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the
place of a bishop's see. In the United States these
distinctions do not hold.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
village
n 1: a community of people smaller than a town [syn: {small town},
{settlement}]
2: a settlement smaller than a town [syn: {hamlet}]
3: a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village'
became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th
century [syn: {Greenwich Village}, {Village}]
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