villagen.
/ˈvɪlɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈvɪlɪdʒ/ 1. in extended use.1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. vi. 94 There are whole villages of these Vros inhabiting in the Lake in their boates of Totora, the which are tied together and fastened to some rocke.phr.1770 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 559 To express the Condition of an Honest Fellow and no Flincher, under the Effects of good Fellowship, he is said to..Come home by the Villages, this is Provincial, when a man comes home by the fields he meets nobody, consequently is sober, when he comes home by the Villages, he calls first at one house, then at another, and drinks at all.
a. A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, forming a centre of habitation in a country district; an inhabited place larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, or having a simpler organization and administration than the latter. (Cf. the note to town n. 4.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun]
cotlif1001
rewa1350
villagec1386
grange1530
dorp1582
villa1700
maenor1841
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 225 Henne oure a myle, withinne a greet village.
a1400 Sqr. lowe Degre 491 He had not ryden but a whyle,..Or he was ware of a vyllage.
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 184 A Candrede in frensh and in Irysh, is a Porcion of grovnde that may contene an hundrid villachis.
1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 184/1 In any Toune or other village not corporat.
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.ijv They sayled Englande thorowe and thorowe Vyllage towne cyte and borowe.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 36 Much carting, ill tillage, makes som to flie village.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vii. 287 A large and ample village containing to the number of sixe thousand or mo families.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 53 A wall'd Towne is more worthier then a village . View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 51 I remember not to haue seene a more pleasant village than this [the Hague].
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 448 Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes.., The smell of Grain. View more context for this quotation
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. §4 Consider also, that..the Customs of different Towns and Villages in the same Nation, are..contrary to each other.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 1.
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. Wallacetown, a thriving and populous village in Ayrshire... This village nearly joins to the Newtown of Ayr, and, in 1792, contained..960 inhabitants.
1860 J. S. Mill Consider. Represent. Govt. (1865) 115/1 A mere village has no claim to a municipal representation.
1882 T. Coan Life in Hawaii 43 When the meeting closed at one village, most of the people ran on to the next.
b. Applied jocularly to a large town or city, esp. London.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun]
cityc1300
cityc1300
wonec1330
motec1390
daughter1535
civity1577
village1825
urbs1837
urb1952
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 129 I used to keep a good prad here for a bolt to the village.
?a1860 Du Maurier in Moscheles In Bohemia (1897) 124 Living with Henley, No. 85, Newman Street... This is a very jolly little village, and I wish you were over here.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xii. 218 You had much better come up to the little village at once, Brown, and stay there while the coin lasts.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 334 Birmingham is called ‘the hardware village’.
c. Cambridge University slang. (See quot. 1864.)
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1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) A Cambridge term for a disreputable suburb of that town, viz., Barnwell, generally styled ‘the village’.
d. U.S. A minor municipality with limited corporate powers (see quots.).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > borough > in U.S. > minor
village1883
1883 A. Shaw in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. xlviii. 240 A minimum population of three hundred, occupying not more than two square miles in extent, may by popular vote become incorporated as a ‘village’.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlviii. 247 Of these villages and other minor municipalities there are various forms in different States. Ohio, for instance, divides her municipal corporations into (a) cities,..(b) villages, with two classes, the first of from 3000 to 5000 inhabitants, the second of from 200 to 3000; and (c) hamlets.
e. A small self-contained district or community within a city or town; spec. †(a) see sense 1c; (b) (with capital initial) = Greenwich Village adj.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > (part of) New York
the Bowery1787
Gotham1807
hell's kitchen1879
tenderloin district1887
west side1897
Big Apple1922
village1929
apple1939
Soul City1964
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun]
quarter1526
ferling1610
quartier1828
urban village1867
quartiere1888
section1907
poblacion1926
neighbourhood1929
precinct1942
village1949
1864 [see sense 1c].
1924 [implied in: H. Crane Let. 12 Jan. (1965) ii. 170 I wish you could meet some of my friends, who are not the kind of ‘Greenwich Villagers’ that you may have been thinking they were. (at Greenwich Villager n.)].
1929 E. Wilson I thought of Daisy i. 16 Sue Borglum's pleasantry had been in the vein of the Village; Daisy's was in the taste of Broadway.
1931 H. Crane Let. 22 June (1965) iv. 376 Peggy [Baird] will be here [i.e. in Mexico] in a few days—I'd rather..she didn't step into a truly Greenich Village scene.
1949 M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xii. 156 London is made up of many villages.
1952 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. viii– ix. 1 w/5 (caption) Sketch of section of..cooperative multi-family for Holliswood, Queens, to be known as Hilltop Village.
1971 A. Thorburn Planning Villages iv. 24 The word ‘village’ has a pleasant and attractive connotation for most of us, sufficiently so for it to be borrowed by many estate agents regardless of the context, and to be applied to self-contained neighbourhoods in towns (e.g. at Banbury and Washington, Co. Durham).
1975 Harpers & Queen June 35/1 Hampstead—the loveliest of London's historical ‘villages’.
1977 Guardian Weekly 25 Sept. 8/3 They call it a village but Skokie is geographically a middle-income suburb of Chicago with a population of 70,000.
1979 M. McMullen But Nellie was so Nice i. iv. 23 She had grown up in the Village, on West Ninth Street between Fifth and Sixth.
2. The inhabitants or residents of a village; the villagers.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of village > [noun] > collectively
townshipeOE
villagea1529
hamlet1744
villageship1762
villagefula1894
a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 127 The corte, the contre, wylage, and towne, Sayth..Of all prowde knauys thow beryst the belle.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 207 The village all declar'd how much he knew.
1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxvii. 29 The Village on their Pastor gaz'd, At once afflicted and amaz'd.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 53 A sleepy land..Where almost all the village had one name.
3. transferred (from 1). A small group or cluster of the burrows of prairie-dogs. Cf. town n. 5b.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Cynomys (prairie-dog) > cluster of burrows of
town1775
village1808
village burrow1893
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 156 (note) The Wishtonwish of the Indians, prairie dogs of some travellers,..reside on the prairies of Louisiana in towns and villages.
1811 H. M. Brackenridge Jrnl. 3 June in Views Louisiana (1814) 239 I happened on a village of barking squirrels, or prairie dogs.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxxii. 295 I learned that a burrow, or village, as it is termed, of prairie dogs had been discovered.
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General attributive. C1. Simple attributive passing into adjective, = of or pertaining to, characteristic of, a village or villages; living in or belonging to a village; rural, rustic. Frequently in poetry from the early 18th cent.
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1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xiii. 95 The Voinuchz or Græcian village men.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 163 The earlie village cocke, Hath twise done salutation to the morne. View more context for this quotation
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 160 Of the Village Dogge or house-keeper.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iv. 156 Enemies, that know not Why they are so; but like to Village Curres, Barke when their fellowes doe. View more context for this quotation
1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence ii. iii. sig. E 'Tis a plaine Village Girle Sir, but obedient.
1637 J. Milton Comus 12 Might we but heare..Or sound of pastoral reed.., Or village cock Count the night watches to his featherie Dames.
1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. f2 Those Village-words, as I may call them, gives us a mean Idea of the thing.
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent ii. i Faithful as the simple Village Swain.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 327 She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest.
1779 Mirror No. 42. ⁋4 The village-surgeon being then absent.
1783 G. Crabbe Village ii. 25 No longer truth..disdain, But own the village life a life of pain.
1803 G. Colman John Bull iv. ii. 62 One of the prettiest little village churches you ever saw in your life.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. 246 But village notes could ne'er supply That rich and varied melody.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. v. 111 The domestic chaplain, the village doctor..and my uncle.
1818 T. G. Fessenden Ladies Monitor 124 Learning should never pose a woman's head,..Whose wealth and beauty sanction higher aims, Than those of village-school instructing aims.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 6 The village shop, like other village shops, multifarious as a bazaar; a repository for bread, shoes, tea, cheese..for every thing, in short.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 91 Much might be said of village manners in America.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxv. 74 They hurried through the village street.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Poems II. 201 He is but a landscape-painter, And a village maiden she.
1843 Cumberland Pacquet 1 Aug. 3/1 His [sc. a raven's] masterpiece was his correct repetition of the Lord's prayer; which..would have done no discredit to many a village schoolmaster.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. v. 121 To be a village-schoolmistress, free and honest.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ii. 58 The village people began to be reconciled presently to their lady.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House vii. 61 A dark-eyed, dark-haired, shy, village beauty comes in.
1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe I. vi. 94 A village boy, whom he caught misusing a poor dog.
1854 C. M. Yonge Heartsease I. i. 2 A party of village children..gathering cowslips.
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. ii. 27 Mr. Hale..was anxious for the village postman, whose summons to the household was a rap on the back-kitchen window-shutter.
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xxi. 281 The house fronted the village green.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 28 Mr Rann's leathern apron and subdued griminess can leave no one in any doubt that he is the village shoemaker.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xvii. 5 That village wedding..where an awkward bridegroom opens the dance with a high-shouldered, broad-faced bride.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xviii. 36 An experienced eye would have fixed on him at once as the village blacksmith.
1860 C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears I. viii. 316 The apartment was not much behind that at the village inn at Hiltonbury.
1860 C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears II. xviii. 347 It was..interesting to observe his impression of the English village-life at Hiltonbury.
1861 R. D. in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 114 The literati of the southern Slaves are not to be found among a higher class than the village clergy, and masters of village-schools.
1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother v. 58 The pleasures to which he had been introducing Gilbert, were not merely..the rabbit-shooting and rat-hunting of the farm, nor even the village cricket-match.
1871 Maine (title) Village-Communities in the East and West.
1873 W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance i. 27 Under the porch of the village store some desolate idlers..had clubbed their miserable leisure.
c1873 C. Rhodes Let. in J. Flint Cecil Rhodes (1974) ii. 24 Whether I become the village parson..remains to be proved.
1883 Smiles in Longman's Mag. June 159 He was followed to the grave by a large number of the village labourers.
1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. ii. iii. 138 Every effort will be made to establish village industries, and I..hope..we may be able to restore some of the domestic occupations which steam has compelled us to confine to the great factories.
1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man in India viii. 194 The village Elders stand before him with joined hands to learn his Lordship's commands.
1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man in India xii. 316 The Eastern cat..is used in a frequently-quoted saying about doubtful matters. ‘If the Punchayat (village council) says it's a cat, why, cat it is.’
1892 C. M. Yonge Old Woman's Outlook 167 The village shopkeeper, the maker of the ‘vinosity’ bread.
1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 34 As soon as the villagers saw the smoke in the deserted shrine, the village priest climbed up..to welcome the stranger.
1895 C. M. Yonge Long Vac. i. 5 An expedition to play the zither and sing at a village fête.
1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara in John Bull's Other Island 148 I myself have had a village idiot exhibited to me as something irresistibly funny.
1912 R. Marsh Judith Lee i. 10 Dickson was at my bedside..and Pierce, the village policeman.
1913 G. K. Chesterton Victorian Age in Lit. ii. 143 Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot.
1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers i. 9 She was presently driven out of the place by..the baillie, and the village dogs.
1920 ‘O. Douglas’ Penny Plain xxv. 296 The village women, with little girls in clean pinafores clinging to their skirts.
1923 M. Kennedy Ladies of Lyndon ii. 70 I'm afraid..that Modern Art wouldn't be quite suitable... It's only simple village folk, Mr. Ervine.
1923 M. Kennedy Ladies of Lyndon ii. 96 The Village Room is quite two miles off.
1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match i. 10 Down by the Village Room, where pictures are shown on Friday evenings..and into the village square again.
1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match ii. 27 Best cricket going, village cricket.
1926 L. Elmhirst in M. Yonge Elmhirsts of Dartington (1982) vi. 138 Like the village community of earlier times,..the school community..must engage in many practical enterprises.
1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem ii. 24 It is high time to renounce This village idiocy.
1930 K. Boyle Plagued by Nightingale (1931) xi. 87 Tomorrow was the village fête.
1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xxiii. 350 She went many times..to the Chiswick Church in the little old village street beside the river.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. vi. 107 He would put up at the village pub until the moment to pounce was due.
1933 A. Thirkell High Rising i. 25 She had formed a habit of ordering groceries..on a gigantic scale, from the village store.
1939 L. Bemelmans Life Class iii. v. 246 From the railroad station came crates and boxes with materials from New York and Vienna; the village children's hair was full of excelsior as they helped unpack them.
1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise x. 186 ‘Everybody who was anything’..kept a maid..stud grooms' wives, village schoolmasters' wives.
1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise xii. 225 The position of a village schoolmistress was a trying one socially.
1942 M. Cable & F. French Gobi Desert 122 To buy the printed likeness of the kitchen god at a village fair.
1943 A. Christie Moving Finger vii. 82 Emily Barton..has a mental picture of men as..smoking cigars, and in the intervals dropping out to do a few seductions of village maidens.
1948 F. Thompson Still glides Stream ii. 18 At that time village houses had no numbers or names.
1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) i. 5 He does nothing but read detective novels from the village library.
1950 New Yorker 23 Sept. 66/3 A lively, exalted young novice..was formerly a village schoolteacher.
1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization iv. 134 Such behaviour is a function of the social structure, with its emphasis on the village community and the kinship group.
1952 M. Laski Village i. 12 The village boys and girls still danced sedately.
1952 M. Laski Village iii. 52 The village people..normally had their radios on all day.
1953 G. E. Fussell & K. R. Fussell Eng. Countrywoman iv. 123 Farmhouse and cottage furniture was made by the village carpenter.
1953 S. Bedford Sudden View i. x. 94 In France, village curés..exact fees from their parishioners.
1954 A. Seton Katherine vii. 119 Celibacy might be asked of monk or friar but hardly from..a village parson.
1957 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Shadow of Moon xxi. 309 He called upon the Kotwal—the village headman.
1958 J. Cary in R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour p. xi The few hundred who..had been able to..travel farther than the county town or the village fair.
1960 J. R. Ackerley We think World of You 40 The small blank eyes mooned stolidly at me..it was like being gaped at by the village idiot.
1967 ‘A. Cordell’ Bright Cantonese ii. 28 The village elders were waiting for me on the little airstrip at Hoon.
1969 R. Blythe Akenfield ii. 60 Texts in glass cases hang outside.. and can be read by passengers in the village bus, which just stops there.
1969 R. Blythe Akenfield iv. 89 When the village shopkeeper sends things to out-of-the-way cottages..he's going to charge..something for the service.
1969 Listener 12 June 814/1 The village chief himself asked us to a dinner of dried deer and shrimp crackers.
1971 O. Norton Corpse-bird Cries i. 3 Most of the fishing would probably be done in the company of a village bobby.
1971 O. Norton Corpse-bird Cries v. 96 Such a simple life, isn't it, being a village copper?
1973 Stornoway Gaz. 13 Jan. 7/2 The annual general meeting of Portree Village Council was held in the Portree Hotel, at which there was a fairly large attendance.
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 157 Then we rushed him down to the village hall, which has been built by the energy of Len Edwards, our remarkable local inventor of laundry machinery.
1975 Country Life 9 Oct. (Suppl.) 26/1 (advt.) Family house on village green.
1976 ‘H. Carmichael’ False Evidence ii. 25 The cottage was set in restful countryside, a quarter of a mile from the village inn.
1976 P. R. White Planning for Public Transport vii. 142 Local village shops may also substitute for day-to-day needs.
1978 P. Van Greenaway Man called Scavener ii. 21 Unhonoured assignations with village beauties.
1978 J. Porter Dead Easy for Dover ii. 25 We had the funeral on the Saturday... The village church was absolutely packed.
1978 ‘J. Melville’ Axwater ii. 57 The village girls used to go there at the new moon and wish. Like a wishing well.
1979 ‘S. Kemp’ Goodbye, Pussy x. 125 The village doctor..saw her once in a while for measles and mumps.
1980 G. Sims in Winter's Crimes 12 149 The village Postmistress, who delighted in gossip.
1981 M. Warner Joan of Arc i. 20 Women who..were ducked in village ponds to find out whether or not they were witches.
1981 E. Clark Send in Lions xiii. 121 The village postman..had seen Kemp that morning.
1981 A. Edwards Sonya xi. 175 On Christmas Eve the village priests came to hold a vespers service.
1981 C. Miller Childhood in Scotl. 63 We wore heavy black boots made by the village shoemaker.
1983 Times 29 Jan.–4 Feb. (Saturday Suppl.) 4/4 (caption) Rekindling village life in Chelsea.
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1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 89 In populous Cityes, not in village Townes, for no Bishops were ever suffered to be in village Townes.
C3. In objective and objective genitive, instrumental, locative, or other combinations, as village-founder, village-haunter; village-based, village-born, village-dwelling, village-lit, village-made adjs.
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a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxcix, in Poems (1878) IV. 175 These..wrought more With village-haunters.
1852 G. P. Badger Nestorians I. 343 The Jès were all Igrâwy, that is village-dwelling Arabs, who cultivate the soil.
1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey ix. 242 The landscape of village-lit plain and forest-darkened height.
1880 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 35 The local hero or eponymous village-founder was the man who cut down the jungle.
1883 R. Jefferies Nature near London 221 Each village-made crook had an individuality, that of the blacksmith.
1891 Daily News 11 Sept. 3/4 The many village-born men in towns.
1976 P. R. White Planning for Public Transport vii. 140 In this situation the village-based independent may score over the larger operator.
C4. Special combinations.
village burrow n. = sense 3.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Cynomys (prairie-dog) > cluster of burrows of
town1775
village1808
village burrow1893
1893 W. H. Hudson Idle Days Patagonia i. 11 Like..the vizcacha's village burrows, and the beaver's dam, it is made to last for ever.
village butler n. Cant (see quot.).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > habitual or kleptomaniac
mercurial1615
Mercurialist1644
village butler1795
kleptomaniac1861
klep1889
klepto1958
1795 H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash (ed. 2) Village butlers, old thieves, that would rather steal a dishclout than discontinue the practice of thieving.
village college n. (see quot. 1981).
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society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > college > community college
community college1922
village college1924
county college1944
1924 H. Morris (title) The village college.
1981 D. Rowntree Dict. Educ. 342 Village colleges, a UK scheme in community education initiated in rural Cambridgeshire in the 1930s, with a number of colleges each serving a village not only as a secondary school but also as a cultural and recreational centre for old and young alike out of school hours. The scheme was later adopted by several other largely-rural counties.
village constable n. (a) Historical in Papua, a local man through whom the orders of the Australian administration were transmitted; (b) a police constable stationed in a village.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > native in Papua
luluai1924
village constable1924
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > town or village
village constable1924
town clown1927
1924 ‘R. Daly’ Outpost xxvii. 259 ‘They say they will have no chief but the village-constable,’ he said, ‘and no sorcery except that of the white man.’
1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green vii. 115 The village constable was still regarded by many as a potential enemy.
1965 Austral. Encycl. VI. 468/1 In the period before World War II, for the carrying out of policy, Administrations to some extent relied on selected headmen (called luluais) in New Guinea and on village constables in Papua.
1981 B. Knox Killing in Antiques viii. 166 The village constable got there in ten minutes flat then ran for his car radio.
village gossip n. (a) the idle talk of a village (see gossip n. 4); (b) a woman who gossips (see gossip n. 3).
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip
jowl?c1225
trattle1513
tittle-tattle1570
tattle1583
clatter1596
street web1614
town talk1642
street-threada1661
clash1685
fetch-fire1784
street yarn1800
gossip1811
village gossip1847
Russian scandal1861
chopsing1879
cooze1880
reportage1881
skeet1900
scuttlebutt gossip1901
pussy-talk1937
mauvais languec1945
comess1970
he-say-she-say1972
gyaff1975
skinder1979
goss1985
gist1990
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips
kikelot?c1225
mathelild?c1225
cacklec1230
tutelerc1385
tittererc1400
roukera1425
trattlerc1485
flimmerc1530
tattler1549
chatter1561
gossip1566
gossiper1568
tittle-tattle1571
chatmate1599
fiddle-faddle1602
tittle-tattler1602
confabulator1659
twittle-twat1662
shat1709
prittle-prattle1725
tattle-basket1736
small-talker1762
nash-gab1816
granny1861
windjammer1880
schmoozer1899
scuttlebutt gossip1901
wag-tongue1902
coffee-houser1907
kibitzer1925
clatfarta1930
natterer1959
yacker1959
rapper1967
village gossip1972
1847 C. M. Yonge Scenes & Characters xvi. 201 Jane sought for amusement in village gossip.
1952 M. Laski Village ix. 146 He'd tell her the village gossip.
1972 P. D. James Unsuitable Job iv. 143 The confiding relish of a village gossip about to relate the latest scandal.
village Hampden n. a person like John Hampden (1594–1643), one without means or influence who opposes a powerful local person or organization (in imitation of quot. 1751).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [noun] > one who rebels > as individual against local power
village Hampden1751
1751 T. Gray Elegy xv. 8 Some Village-Hampden that with dauntless Breast The little Tyrant of his Fields withstood.
1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. i. 3 He stalked along like a village Hampden, muttering, ‘The old tyrant shall see whether I'm to be trampled on!’
1957 D. Piper Eng. Face iv. 111 Many of Johnson's portraits have now lost their names..yet some of them no doubt were ‘village Hampdens’.
1978 A. Sanders Victorian Historical Novel i. 23 Reade is not mourning the silence of village Hampdens, for..he is aspiring to a history which is ‘familiar rather than heroic’.
village-house n. the chief house of a Malay village.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > other types of house
houseOE
showernc1175
house of fencec1425
abbey1665
park1750
trust house1751
subhouse1771
hurley-house1814
bure1843
ideal home1854
tholtan1856
picture house1858
village-house1862
tumble-down1866
tree-house1867
mazet1873
riad1881
slaughterhouse1899
whare puni1911
mas1912
social housing1928
quadruplex1939
share house1945
starter home1948
show house1957
painted lady1978
self-build1978
starter1979
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1862 S. St. John Life Forests Far East I. 7 A passage raised on posts three feet above the ground, led to the great village-house.
village pump n. a village's communal water pump; frequently used allusively (cf. parish pump n.).
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > well
water piteOE
wellOE
pitOE
pulkc1300
draw-wellc1410
draught-wellc1440
winchc1440
brine-well1594
salt spring1601
sump1680
pump well1699
spout-well1710
sump hole1754
pit-well1756
sink1804
bucket-well1813
artesian well1829
shallow well1877
dip-well1894
garland-well1897
village pump1925
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial > types of
little1440
one-horse1853
village pump1925
trivia1968
1925 V. Woolf Common Reader 112 The talk of old women round the village pump.
1953 G. E. Fussell & K. R. Fussell Eng. Countrywoman vi. Plate 48 (caption) The village pump at Fressingfield, Suffolk: still used.
1955 G. Gorer Exploring Eng. Char. iv. 61 What a 20-year-old Hereford student calls ‘the proverbial “village pump” attitude and conflicts’ seems to bedevil the life of many.
1978 Listener 6 July 27/2 Officially, the village of Montaillou was subject to the bailiff of the local count of Foix... But Professor Ladurie is able to tell us about the exercise..of authority at the level of the village pump.
C5. (With capital initial.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Greenwich Village. U.S.
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1950 T. Sterling House without Door iv. 41 She's not a Village artist... She was very wealthy once.
1979 M. McMullen But Nellie was so Nice i. i. 7 He wore a sort of Village uniform—corduroys and a turtle-necked dark jersey.
Derivatives
ˈvillage v. (intransitive) (a) to settle down to a villeggiatura; (b) to visit a village in a pastoral capacity.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in or as in other buildings
cabin1586
den1610
stable1651
hut1691
templea1711
bog-trota1734
sty1748
village1819
shanty1840
shack1895
flat1966
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > go on holiday or tour [verb (intransitive)]
village1819
tourize1837
vacation1896
weekend1901
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit village as a clergyman
village1819
1819 Ld. Byron Let. 6 June (1976) VI. 147 I shall go back to Venice before I village on the Brenta.
1871 F. Kilvert Diary 24 Feb. (1977) 130 Villaging about to Mrs Jones at the Infant School, Jo Phillips and Margaret Griffith.
1981 ‘M. Innes’ Lord Mullion's Secret 27 The Vicar of Mullion, an old man given to antique usages, sometimes described himself as having been ‘villaging’—by which he meant going round the cottagers and chatting them up.
ˈvillagedom n. the condition or status of a village; also, the system of village communities.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > condition of
villagedom1867
villagehood1890
1867 W. McDowall Hist. Dumfries xiii. 144 William I. raised it [Dumfries] from humble villagedom to be one of the King's own burghs.
1881 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. 4 O'er the land is wrought The happy villagedom by English tribes From Elbe and Baltic brought.
ˈvillageful n. as many as a village contains; the whole of the people of a village.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of village > [noun] > collectively
townshipeOE
villagea1529
hamlet1744
villageship1762
villagefula1894
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) iv. v. 338 A villageful of gay companions.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 401 They come down in villagefuls among the older tribes.
ˈvillagehood n. = villagedom n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > condition of
villagedom1867
villagehood1890
1890 Murray's Mag. May 662 Caudebec is only redeemed from pure villagehood by its possession of a Mayor.
ˈvillageless adj. having no village.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [adjective] > without a village
villageless1889
1889 J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 169 An old and lonely country church, standing by itself, villageless, on rising ground.
viˈllageous adj. of or concerned with villages or village-life.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [adjective]
villageous1858
1858 H. D. Thoreau Let. 6 Nov. in Corr. (1958) 525 Let it be a local and villageous book.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of village > [noun] > collectively
townshipeOE
villagea1529
hamlet1744
villageship1762
villagefula1894
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 72 The town contains some corporations of villages or villageships.
ˈvillageward adv. (also ˈvillagewards) in the direction of the village.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [adverb]
villageward1883
1883 Harper's Mag. Sept. 493/2 We strolled villageward.
1884 M. Crommelin Brown-eyes xix Then the two groups..went back villagewards.
ˈvillagism n. a mode of expression usual in villages; a rustic phrase.
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the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > word or phrase of
rusticity1675
rusticism1749
provincialism1770
villagism1772
localism1823
nationalism1823
colonialism1842
ruralism1854
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. vi. 169 To say, ‘Command me, in every thing,’ they would think a vulgarity and villagism.
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