Collocations for "village"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "village" in context.
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village
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [a small, a large, a self-sufficient, an isolated, an alpine] village
- the [new, old] Olympic village
- the village doesn't [like, welcome] strangers
- there are [few, some, hardly any] residents in the village
- the village has a population of [1,000]
- a village of [1000]
- am from a small village (in)
- [comes from, lives in] a village
- [locals, services, shops, pubs, life] in the village
- a [house, farm, church] in the village
- a village to the [north, south] of
- a village [near, close to] the [coast, mountains]
- is the village idiot
- the village [hall, fair, square, church, parish, idiot]
- on the village green
'village' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
British
- affair
- ancestor
- appealing
- approach
- attack
- back
- border
- boy
- calf
- carpet
- channel
- closely
- common
- consequently
- consume
- cottage
- curse
- defense
- dispatch
- distress
- elder
- encounter
- fairy
- feast
- fishing
- flame
- flood
- frozen
- girl
- green
- homecoming
- idiot
- imprint
- inn
- isolated
- loot
- mining
- model
- mop
- mountain
- northern
- park
- people
- plunder
- population
- quaint
- rampage
- resident
- revel