ville
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5.8
- noun
- /vɪl/
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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.
- She give me a ride home across the Causeway back to Amanda Ville.
- I was driven in chains and an E list suit to Pentonville and I did nine months in the Ville which was horrific, awful jail.
- One of the more interesting cases is the case of the La Gulia ver La Ville Ver competition.
Examples
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We go into this ville.
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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.
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I keep thinking about that lady in the ville today.
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We go home in the ville.
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This is a retirement ville.
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We're leaving an hour early because we detour 2000 meters to the south... ...to the ville of Nghia Hanh.
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Connecticut, for example, had 203 "villes" or river mill villages between 1770-1870, only two of which matured into towns.
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The quaint ville nestled in the hills was known for its beautiful vineyards.
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After traveling for hours, we finally arrived in the charming ville famous for its local festivals.
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In the heart of the ville, the vibrant market was bustling with activity on Saturday mornings.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people live that is bigger than a village but smaller than a city
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A small group of houses in the countryside where people live and form a community
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A community with few people and few shops
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A small community outside a city where people live
A small village or group of houses often found in English place names
Antonyms
Compounds
A historic district and old town of Monaco on a rocky cliff above the Mediterranean
How Big
Surface Forms
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.