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vills

vills is the plural of vill.

Meaning of vill

Noun

vill (plural vills)

  1. (historical) The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish.
  2. (obsolete) A villa; a country residence.
    • Sometimes the kings in their country vills and seats of pleasure or retirement built a place of worship, which was the origin of royal free chapels.1781, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law, volume 1, page 61

Questions about vills

What is vills the plural of?
Vills is the plural of vill.

Words near vills in the dictionary

  1. villottas
  2. villous
  3. villous lipfern
  4. villous lipferns
  5. villously
  6. vills
  7. villus
  8. Villwock
  9. Villwocks
  10. villyaellenite
  11. Villány

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