[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/village/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [V](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/v/) / village # village noun (village, villages) «village» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A village is a small group of houses and people in the country, smaller than a town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#m1) 2. The village can also mean all the people who live there. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#m2) 3. A «global village» means the whole world feels close because people can talk across it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#m3) ### In the lessons a setting; houses, people or animals in a village are counted; distances between villages; in everyday life and stories a village has a few shops, a church or a school, a green or a pub, and everyone knows everyone; in history and geography villages grow into towns and cities ### Examples - The village has 85 houses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x1) - 320 people live in the village. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x2) - The next village is 7 km away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x3) - Two villages have 150 and 230 people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x4) - Grandma lives in a quiet village by the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x5) - The whole village came to the summer fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x6) - The village shop sells bread, milk and stamps. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x7) - In the story, a dragon flew over the sleeping village. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x8) - Many villages in the valley have fewer than 500 people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x9) - In the village all were still asleep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/#x10) ### Note A word of the story; the numbers are for houses, people or distances. Size order: village \< town \< city. People in two villages: add them. «Villager» is a person who lives in a village. ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah, a village is a small unwalled settlement near a bigger town. In Joshua the villages belong to a city and are listed with it when the land is divided among the tribes. In the primary lessons: a setting; houses, people or animals in a village are counted; distances between villages; in everyday life and stories a village has a few shops, a church or a school, a green or a pub, and everyone knows everyone; in history and geography villages grow into towns and cities ### Examples - And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair. (Torah NUM.32.41, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x1) - And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. (Torah NUM.32.42, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x2) - these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations. (Torah GEN.25.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x3) - Ekron, with its towns and its villages; (Prophets JOS.15.45, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x4) - Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages. (Prophets JOS.15.57, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x5) - and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages: (Prophets JOS.19.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x6) ### Note A word of the story; the numbers are for houses, people or distances. Size order: village \< town \< city. People in two villages: add them. «Villager» is a person who lives in a village. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «village» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/village/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«village» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/village.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «village» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«village» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/village.html) on Mova free.