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village

[vil-ij] / ˈvɪl ɪdʒ /
NOUN
small town
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There were questions about the quietness of the village afterwards, and the guilt some children felt playing outside when so many families were grieving.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

It shared images of the burnt out wreckage of a car on a road outside the village.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

London’s 2012 Wenlock mascot was a bottom-heavy cyclops figure named for an English village that held a kind of Olympic competition in 1850.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

While planners say "it's all beautiful, it's all fantastic", locals fear environmental impacts, "disruption during the construction work" and potential expansion of the village with new houses or even blocks of flats, he added.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“Everybody knows that. Names hold power, and that power shouldn’t be wasted on something that isn’t living. A village doesn’t need a destiny.”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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