village

as in hamlet
a small residential settlement we stayed in a charming bed-and-breakfast in a lakeside village

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Recent Examples of village More of a coastal village, really, it's stretched out around a quiet, sweeping bay, protected from the wind and sea by a couple of islands which form a serene, natural cove. William Leigh, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024 Train setups range from a simple loop of track on a snowy white bedsheet to handcrafted villages with painstakingly detailed churches, railroad stations, water towers and other features. George Petras, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024 Health workers have begun traveling to villages and informal settlements to help residents prevent malaria. Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2024 The opposition fighters, led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, launched an incursion on Wednesday into a dozen towns and villages in the northern province of Aleppo, which was controlled by Assad's government, backed by both Iran and Russia. Maya Gebeily, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for village 

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“Village.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/village. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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