Word.ws English Dictionary

venville

/ˈvɛn.vɪl/

venville noun: a system of tenure in Dartmoor, England, allowing residents to graze animals on the moor and to gather coal, turf, etc. from the forest.

Noun

venville (usually uncountable, plural venvilles)

  1. (historical, usually) A system of tenure in Dartmoor, England, allowing residents to graze animals on the moor and to gather coal, turf, etc. from the forest.
    • [Dartmoor forest’s] boundaries being, in some parts, several miles from the cultivated country, the intervening tract being claimed as common land by the numerous parishes bordering it, which parishes are known as lying within Venville.1887, William Crossing, The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor, Exeter: James G. Commin, page x
    • A custom of law particular to England's Dartmoor Forest, venville rights allowed for "certain rights of common"[.]2015, William J. Kupinse, “Private Property, Public Interest”, in James Joyce Quarterly, volume 52, number 3/4, pages 593–621

Forms of venville

pluralvenvilles

Words that rhyme with venville

Questions about venville

What does venville mean?
Venville means a system of tenure in Dartmoor, England, allowing residents to graze animals on the moor and to gather coal, turf, etc. from the forest.
What part of speech is venville?
Venville is a noun.
How do you pronounce venville?
Venville is pronounced /ˈvɛn.vɪl/.
What is the plural of venville?
The plural of venville is venvilles.

Words near venville in the dictionary

  1. Venutian
  2. Venutians
  3. Venutis
  4. Venuto
  5. Venutos
  6. venville
  7. venvilles
  8. veny
  9. Venzor
  10. Venzors
  11. VEOS

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: venville (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “venville.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/venville. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.