n.
Pronunciation: ' vi-lij
Function: noun
Usage: often attrib
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vilage, from vil manorial estate, farmstead, from Latin villa
Date: 14th century
1 a : a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town b : an incorporated minor municipality
2 : the residents of a village
3 : something (as an aggregation of burrows or nests) suggesting a village
4 : a territorial area having the status of a village especially as a unit of local government