Village | Village
SmallclusteredhumansettlementsmallerthanatownAvillageisaclusteredhumansettlementorcommunity,largerthanahamletbutsmallerthanatown(althoughthewordisoftenusedtodescribebothhamletsandsmallertowns),withapopulationtypicallyrangingfromafewhundredtoafewthousand.Thoughvillagesareoftenlocatedinruralareas,thetermurbanvillageisalsoappliedtocertainurbanneighborhoods.Villagesarenormallypermanent,withfixeddwellings;however,transientvillagescanoccur.Further,thedwellingsofavillagearefairlyclosetooneanother,n...
Small clustered human settlement smaller than a town
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.
In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.[1] In many cultures, towns and cities were few, with only a small ...