villages
Syllables: vil·lages/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɪz/
villages is the plural of village.
Meaning of village
Noun
village (plural villages)
- A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.
- A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- I mean, think about it, Joyce. Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it's always the same thing: Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide, and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go and live in one of them?1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders
- A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
- An exclusive gated community; a subdivision.
- There are six blocks in our village, each having ten lots.
Phrases with villages
- gay villages
- pit villages
- The Villages
- lake villages
- model villages
- global villages
- police villages
- postal villages
- summer villages
- throne villages
- holiday villages
- Olympic villages
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Questions about villages
- What is villages the plural of?
- Villages is the plural of village.
- How do you pronounce villages?
- Villages is pronounced /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɪz/.
Words near villages in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: villages (page history and authors); village (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.
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