VILLAGE

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