village : nm (word from medieval Latin village ; of villa, city).
The word “village” has several meanings:
1. Rural settlement; group of dwellings large enough to have a life of its own (unlike the hamlet).
Church, town hall, bakery, coffee, post of a village.
Party village.
Large village (town, village.).
Small village (synonyms: hamlet; colloquial: bled, hometown, hole).
To return, to return to the village, to his village.
The idiot, the innocent of the village.
Figurative phrase Keep, put the church back in the middle of the village: get back to priorities, to the essentials.
Opposed to city : "The Village Priest", work of Balzac (the countryside).
Un coq de village: A man who seduces or pretends to seduce women by his advantageous appearance.
In other civilizations: Fortified Arab villages.
Villages of huts, in Africa.
Lake villages.
By analogy: canvas village.
Holiday village or vacation village. Holiday villages. Village club.
Phrase: American English: global village by McLuhan (*)
The global village, the planetary village: the Earth, the world, as a unified environment reduced by the globalization of communication systems and networks and cultural exchanges (also cyberspace).
(*) Herbert Marshall McLuhan, born July 21, 1911 in Edmonton and died December 31, 1980 in Toronto, was a Canadian intellectual. Professor of English literature and communication theorist, he is one of the founders of contemporary media studies.
2. By metonymy: The inhabitants of a village. It is the laughing stock, the shame of the village.
Opposites of village: city, city.