n. [ OF. villenage, vilenage. See Villain. ] 1. (Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. [ In this sense written also villenage, and villeinage. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F., fr. L. villaticus belonging to a country house or villa. See Villa, and cf. Villatic. ] A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. [ 1913 Webster ]
Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top. [ 1913 Webster ]
Syn. -- Village, Hamlet, Town, City. In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold. [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) village, See also:settlement, Example: แต่ก่อนต้องพายเรือจากบางหนึ่งไปบางหนึ่ง ใช้เวลาเป็นวันเลยทีเดียว, Thai Definition: ตำบลบ้านที่อยู่หรือเคยอยู่ริมบางหรือในบริเวณที่เคยเป็นบางมาก่อน
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