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outvillage

outvillage noun: an outlying village.

Noun

outvillage (plural outvillages)

  1. An outlying village.
    • The sickness in the out-villages spread, the Bazar was put out of bounds, and then came the news that the Tail Twisters must go into camp.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 143
    • I had gone, with one of the good women on our compound, to visit a sick woman who had been brought in from an outvillage.1942, Florence (Bingham) Crooks, Tales of Thailand (page 135)

Forms of outvillage

pluraloutvillages

Origin of outvillage

From out- + village.

Questions about outvillage

What does outvillage mean?
Outvillage means an outlying village.
What part of speech is outvillage?
Outvillage is a noun.
What is the plural of outvillage?
The plural of outvillage is outvillages.

Words near outvillage in the dictionary

  1. outvenoming
  2. outvenoms
  3. outvie
  4. outvied
  5. outvies
  6. outvillage
  7. outvillages
  8. outvillain
  9. outvillained
  10. outvillaining
  11. outvillains

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