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# village

«village» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small group of houses and people in the country…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (village, villages)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A village is a small group of houses and people in the country, smaller than a town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#m1)

2) The village can also mean all the people who live there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#m2)

3) A «global village» means the whole world feels close because people can talk across it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a setting; houses, people or animals in a village are counted; distances between villages; in everyday life and stories a village has a few shops, a church or a school, a green or a pub, and everyone knows everyone; in history and geography villages grow into towns and cities

### examples

- The village has 85 houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x1)
- 320 people live in the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x2)
- The next village is 7 km away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x3)
- Two villages have 150 and 230 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x4)
- Grandma lives in a quiet village by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x5)
- The whole village came to the summer fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x6)
- The village shop sells bread, milk and stamps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x7)
- In the story, a dragon flew over the sleeping village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x8)
- Many villages in the valley have fewer than 500 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x9)
- In the village all were still asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x10)

### note

A word of the story; the numbers are for houses, people or distances. Size order: village < town < city. People in two villages: add them. «Villager» is a person who lives in a village.

### In the corpora

- [Maria Prymachenko was a Ukrainian folk artist from the village of Bolotnia who painted bright, imaginary animals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/8/)
- [They gave milk, wool, meat, eggs and muscle power, and let people settle in villages.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/5/)
- [«The animals did not hold with villages» (did not like or approve of them).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/13/)
- [He decides to be on the safe side, carefully locks the door, and runs off to the village.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/7/)
- [When Europeans arrived in 1492, tens of millions of people lived in the Americas, in cities, farming villages and many nations.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «village» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.