transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈvi-lij ]
noun
Usage: often attributive
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