单词 | -ville |
释义 | -villea combining form extracted from placenames ending in -ville, used in the coinage of informal nonce words, usually pejorative, that characterize a place, person, group, or situation (dullsville; disasterville; Mediaville) or that name a condition (embarrassmentville; gloomsville). Origin of -villeUltimately from French ville “city”; see bidonville Words nearby -villeVillari effect, Villarrica, Villars, villatic, Villavicencio, -ville, Villeda Morales, Ville-de-Paris, villein, villeinage, villein socage Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for -ville-ville n and adj combining formslang, mainly US (denoting) a place, condition, or quality with a character as specifieddragsville; squaresville Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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