village
part of speech
noun (village, villages)
meaning for a pupil
1) A village is a small group of houses and people in the country, smaller than a town. tree →
2) The village can also mean all the people who live there. tree →
3) A «global village» means the whole world feels close because people can talk across it. tree →
sense in the lessons
a setting; houses, people or animals in a village are counted; distances between villages; in everyday life and stories a village has a few shops, a church or a school, a green or a pub, and everyone knows everyone; in history and geography villages grow into towns and cities
examples
- The village has 85 houses. tree →
- 320 people live in the village. tree →
- The next village is 7 km away. tree →
- Two villages have 150 and 230 people. tree →
- Grandma lives in a quiet village by the river. tree →
- The whole village came to the summer fair. tree →
- The village shop sells bread, milk and stamps. tree →
- In the story, a dragon flew over the sleeping village. tree →
- Many villages in the valley have fewer than 500 people. tree →
- In the village all were still asleep. tree →
note
A word of the story; the numbers are for houses, people or distances. Size order: village < town < city. People in two villages: add them. «Villager» is a person who lives in a village.
In the corpora
- Maria Prymachenko was a Ukrainian folk artist from the village of Bolotnia who painted bright, imaginary animals.
- They gave milk, wool, meat, eggs and muscle power, and let people settle in villages.
- «The animals did not hold with villages» (did not like or approve of them).
- He decides to be on the safe side, carefully locks the door, and runs off to the village.
- When Europeans arrived in 1492, tens of millions of people lived in the Americas, in cities, farming villages and many nations.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «village» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.