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villages

noun

plural of village

as in hamlets

a small residential settlement we stayed in a charming bed-and-breakfast in a lakeside village

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Recent Examples of villages The scale of the devastation difficult to grasp after that wall of water caught everyone off guard, crashing into entire villages. — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026 Along the river, homes, vehicles and farm tractors could be seen jutting from the thick gray-brown sediment that enveloped entire villages in some areas. — Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026 Rights groups say the increasing settler presence on the edge of Palestinian villages, like Qusra, is part of a wider effort by settlers to seize more land from Palestinians, further eating into territory where Palestinians aim to establish a state. — Pesha Magid Reuters, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2026 More than 600 people have been killed, homes buried to the ground and entire villages washed away in the aftermath. — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 Many of these villages sat dozens of metres above the banks of the Trishuli River, which ran through Poudel’s native Nuwakot District. — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 There was little information on survivors on the Chinese side, where the death toll rose to seven Friday as state media showed evacuations of villages and leaders’ efforts to direct the relief response. — Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 The epidemic that started in Mennonite villages in Mexico spread into neighboring Indigenous communities. — Kathryn H. Jacobsen, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026 This involves regularly visiting and even staying overnight in Palestinian villages or homes as a way to deter settler attacks. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026

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hamlets

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These small towns—whether lakeside retreats or artsy hamlets nestled into hills transformed by foliage—are the definition of autumn charm.

— Taryn Shorr-Mckee, Midwest Living, 26 Aug. 2026
The region is made up of various villages and hamlets, including Port Carling (where scenes from the show were filmed at locations like Mortimer’s Point Marina).

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2026

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