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vill

vill

1 9.9
A small medieval English village that manages local duties like collecting taxes
  • noun
  • /vɪl/
  • Archaic
: aldea
  • There's only a vill up ahead.

Examples

  • Delta Six, we are receiving incoming fire from the vill.

    Full Metal Jacket (1987)

  • Gonna move up these roads and check the vill.

    Full Metal Jacket (1987)

  • I come from the vill' that never ran, damn

    Crooklyn (1994)

  • But hey, at least I managed to take some vills.

    Blog text (26)

  • Which vill age? -

    Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

  • A patrol from 25 has found... a shitload of weapons in a vill about a klik and a half to our whisky.

    Dead Presidents (1995)

  • In medieval times, each vill had its own governing council to handle local matters.

  • The villagers worked together to maintain the roads leading to their vill.

  • Every spring, the residents of the vill would gather to celebrate the harvest festival.

Synonyms

village
vsvill
∞ 1.0

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

is a medieval administrative unit responsible for local matters

Surface Forms

vill singular
vills plural

Etymology

Vill comes from the Latin word villa, which meant a 'country house', and it shares the same root as English village and French ville. In medieval England a vill was the small community or local area around such houses that handled local matters, so the origin explains why it means a village or local unit today.