01 n. A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
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A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Phrases & compounds
Village cart —
a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top.
Syn.
Village, Hamlet, Town, City.
In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold.