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- noun Plural form of
village .
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Examples
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The best way to carry out this enormous project is to focus on personal, family and neighborhood levels; several GOLA units may assign to themselves the task of examining whether remote villages and hamlets have been taken in charge by locally established GOLA units; if not, GOLA units established by Oromos in big cities must take care of the remote villages´ populations and of their experience of the Abyssinian tyranny.
American Chronicle 2008
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I have heard it said that to collect refugees in villages is to isolate them from the society into which their children must one day grow up.
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Note 42: Indeed, the large size of Siraya villages is a puzzle.
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What we term villages barely exist, and the nearest approach to them is a group of farms with a church in the neighbourhood.
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Nico [Illustrator] Jungman 1893
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As I understand it, because of the various indigenous languages, even residents who live in villages fairly close to each other do not speak the same language.
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Please keep those Aix tips coming - especially for places to stay in villages or small towns.
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day 2010
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In turn, the talking man of the windward coast, the talking man of the leeward coast, and the talking man of the mountain villages, each backed by his group of lesser talking men and chiefs, arose and made oration.
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Im grateful that my site wasnt Budapest, and that many of my PCV friends lived in villages near the Romanian and Ukrainian border.
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This is not unlike what I hear is happening in villages in Oaxaca also.
Chamula Power 2009
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To travel unknown back roads between unknown towns and villages is to put oneself in unnecessary danger.
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