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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-ville, suffix. - -ville is used in place names, where it means "city, town'':Charlottesville.
- -ville is also attached to roots or words to form informal words, not all of them long-lasting, that characterize a condition, place, person, group, or situation:dulls + -ville (= a dull, boring situation);
gloomsville.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-ville, - a combining form extracted from place names ending in -ville, used in the coinage of informal nonce words, usu. pejorative, that characterize a place, person, group, or situation (dullsville;
disasterville;
Mediaville) or that name a condition (embarrassmentville; gloomsville).
- French ville city; see bidonville
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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -ville n and adj combining form - slang chiefly US (denoting) a place, condition, or quality with a character as specified: dragsville, squaresville
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