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   Village , 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.
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   Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top.
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   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.
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