NEWTOK, Alaska—Two decades ago, the people of this tiny village came to terms with what had become increasingly obvious: They could no longer fight back the rising waters. Their homes perched on a low-lying, treeless tuft of land between two rivers on Alaska’s west coast, residents saw the water creeping closer every year, gobbling up fields where they used to pick berries and hunt moose.
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- Four Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli strike on border village
An Israeli airstrike killed four members of a family in a house in a border village in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said. The four were killed in Meiss al Jabal, which has suffered extensive damage in regular exchanges of fire between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group since the start of the war in Gaza last October.
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- VILLAGE | English meaning
noun. uk / ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ / us / ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ / Add to word list. A1 [ C ] a group of houses and other buildings that is smaller than a town, usually in the countryside: a fishing village. a mountain village. a village shop. a village green (= an area of grass in the middle of a village)
05/4/2024 - 8:45 am | View Link - Village
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), [3] [4] with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.
05/4/2024 - 8:10 am | View Link - Village
Article. Vocabulary. A village is a small settlement usually found in a rural setting. It is generally larger than a " hamlet " but smaller than a " town ." Some geographers specifically define a village as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants. In most parts of the world, villages are settlements of people clustered around a central point.
05/3/2024 - 7:17 pm | View Link - Village (United States)
Village (United States) A Shaker village's main street in Massachusetts. In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction. In formal usage, a " village " is a type of administrative division at the local government level.
05/3/2024 - 11:24 am | View Link - VILLAGE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
noun. us / ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ / uk / ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ / Add to word list. A1 [ C ] a group of houses and other buildings that is smaller than a town, usually in the countryside: a fishing village. a mountain village. a village shop. a village green (= an area of grass in the middle of a village)
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