Vil"lage (?; 48), n. [F., fr. L.
villaticus belonging to a country house or villa. See Villa,
and cf. Villatic.] A small assemblage of houses in the country,
less than a town or city.
Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure
carriage without a top.
Syn. -- Village, Hamlet, Town, City.
In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to
have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A
town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is,
in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been,
the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not
hold.
Vil"lage (?; 48), n. [F., fr. L.
villaticus belonging to a country house or villa. See Villa,
and cf. Villatic.] A small assemblage of houses in the country,
less than a town or city.
Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure
carriage without a top.
Syn. -- Village, Hamlet, Town, City.
In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to
have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A
town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is,
in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been,
the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not
hold.
