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ville

ville

5 5.8
A small town often used in French place names
  • noun
  • /vɪl/
translation icon : villa
  • Welcome to Taraval Tara Ville is a small town on the coast of the UK that's vulnerable to flooding and let me introduce you to two Tara's that live there.
  • walk through a ville

She give me a ride home across the Causeway back to Amanda Ville.

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Examples

  • We go into this ville.

  • A new provisional government is formed and from the Hotel de Ville new Foreign Minister Alfonse de la Martin announces the Republic has been proclaimed.

  • I keep thinking about that lady in the ville today.

  • We go home in the ville.

  • This is a retirement ville.

  • We're leaving an hour early because we detour 2000 meters to the south... ...to the ville of Nghia Hanh.

  • Connecticut, for example, had 203 "villes" or river mill villages between 1770-1870, only two of which matured into towns.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The quaint ville nestled in the hills was known for its beautiful vineyards.

  • After traveling for hours, we finally arrived in the charming ville famous for its local festivals.

  • In the heart of the ville, the vibrant market was bustling with activity on Saturday mornings.

Synonyms

town
vsville
1.0

A place where people live that is bigger than a village but smaller than a city

can also mean a small city or act as a place-name element
village
vsville
1.0

A small group of houses in the countryside where people live and form a community

is broader, sometimes referring to towns or appearing in place names
small town
vsville
245 1.5

A community with few people and few shops

also covers larger urban places and often appears in place names
township
vsville
20 3.2

A small community outside a city where people live

is used more broadly, including as a place-name ending for towns or cities
thorpe
vsville
  • Archaic
9.9

A small village or group of houses often found in English place names

is the French-derived place-name ending that can denote towns or cities

Antonyms

1.0

A large town where many people live and work that has its own local government

175 5.2

A very large important city that is the main center in a region or country

Compounds

The capital and largest city of Luxembourg in the south of the country

A historic district and old town of Monaco on a rocky cliff above the Mediterranean

How Big

metropolis
175 5.2
city
1.0
town
1.0
ville
5 5.8
village
1.0
hamlet
24 5.0

Surface Forms

ville singular
villes plural

Etymology

Ville comes from an old French word meaning 'town', and before that from the Latin word villa meaning 'country house', the same root as the English words villa and village. So when you see ville in a place name, it tells you the place is a town or city.