different between village vs locality

English

Etymology

From Middle English village, from Old French village, from Latin vill?ticus, ultimately from Latin villa (English villa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l?d??/
• Hyphenation: vil?lage
• Rhymes: -?l?d?

Noun

village (plural villages)

1. A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

2. (Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
3. (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
4. (Philippines) A gated community.

Synonyms

• thorp (archaic)

Hypernyms

• settlement

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• villa
• -wich
• wick

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin villaticus, from villa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.la?/

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village
2. (Louisiana) town, city

Related terms

• villageois

Further reading

• “village” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Alternative forms

• vilage

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village

English

Etymology

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lo??kæl?ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???kæl?ti/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti
• Hyphenation: lo?cal?i?ty

Noun

locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)

1. The fact or quality of having a position in space.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.

2. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
3. (uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.
4. The situation or position of an object.
5. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
6. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
7. (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Translations

References

• locality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• coitally