villages

n. small rural town; people who live in a small rural town

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, as against being scattered broadly over the landscape (‘dispersed settlement’).
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Noun
1. a community of people smaller than a town
(synonym) small town, settlement
(hypernym) community
(hyponym) moshav
2. a settlement smaller than a town
(synonym) hamlet
(hypernym) settlement
(hyponym) Kampong, campong

n. village, small rural town; people who live in a small rural town

villages; palaces