A hamlet (in Italy, Malta).

A small village or hamlet in the Highlands or west of Scotland. Also attributive.

Chiefly in Spanish America and the southwestern U.S.: a group of American Indian huts; a small American Indian village or settlement.

In Portugal: a villa. In Brazil and other areas of Portuguese influence: a settlement, a village.

A Cossack community or township.

A village of Southern or Central African native peoples, consisting of a collection of huts surrounded by a fence or stockade, and often having a…

In Sri Lanka and southern India: a town or village lying outside or around a fort, and itself sometimes partly fortified. Now historical.

In Australia, New Zealand, and (formerly) South Africa: (originally) a site reserved for and laid out as a town (now historical); (later) such a…

A village or community in Spain or Spanish America; spec. a settlement or communal dwelling of Pueblo Indians (see compounds 2), typically a…

In Latin America: a hut, hovel, or simple building. Also: a collection these, a hamlet or village.

A place of residence; a settlement, village.

A Caucasian or Tartar village or encampment.

In South Asia: a village or group of huts; a shanty town, a slum.

In ancient Laconia: a village or district; a subdivision of an original phyle or clan.

A social unit that was once traditional in Wales, consisting of a hamlet or homestead or the community occupying it (see quot. 1889).

A Malay village.

In Imperial Russia: a village community of a traditional type characterized by self-government and collective control of local lands, fisheries…

Among certain East African peoples, particularly the Masai: a group of huts forming a unit within a common fence.

South African. With reference to a traditional Sotho homestead. An enclosed area comprising the cluster of huts belonging to an extended family…

A small, rural Jewish town or village in Eastern Europe. Now also in extended use.