Thesaurus results for VILLAGE

village

noun

ˈvi-lij

Definition of village

as in hamlet

a small residential settlement we stayed in a charming bed-and-breakfast in a lakeside village

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Recent Examples of village Lindgren’s grandfather is the late Phil Simmons, who was one of the founders of the village’s Operation Playground Foundation and helped secure money for the current Fort Frankfort project. — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026 Ong cited case studies by the neuropsychologist Alexander Luria, who traveled to remote villages in Uzbekistan and Kirghizia in the 1930s, when peasants were starting to receive rudimentary reading and writing instruction. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 On a warm autumn day in the early 1900s, Henrietta Darwin, Charles Darwin’s eldest daughter, marched into the woods near her house on the outskirts of Gomshall, a rural English village about 30 miles southwest of London. — Leah Hudson, Popular Science, 9 July 2026 The trailer finds the film’s protagonists alternately hunting or fleeing the vicious creature — or creatures — through a tattered town known as Hope Harbor, a remote coastal village near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in South Korea. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for village

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hamlet

Noun

Their Victorian house looks preposterous in this dusty hamlet.

— Judy Berman, Time, 9 July 2026
In Umbria, there’s the medieval hamlet of Solomeo, where Brunello Cucinelli’s luxury empire is headquartered across an array of historic buildings, including a library, a theater, and its very own vineyard.

— Liam Hess, Vogue, 29 June 2026

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