village
US /ˈvɪlədʒ/
Definition
a community of people smaller than a town
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
My grandparents still live in a quiet village near the northern mountains.
Synonyms
- hamleta community of people smaller than a village
- settlementa body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
Collocations
- Easy quiet mountain villageto quiet mountain village, meaning to become quiet or quieter
- Medium local village council cooperationdescribing local village council cooperation (public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops)
- Hard rural village electrification initiativedescribing rural village electrification initiative (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)
- Very Hard it takes a village to nurture greatnessdescribing it takes a village to nurture greatness (the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information)
Learner's English edition · Curated definitions for TOEIC learners.