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Pronunciation
- /ˈvɪl/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-der. Proto-Italic *weikslā Latin vīllader. Old French ville Middle French ville French villebor. English -ville Borrowed from French ville (“town, city”).
Meanings
- (morpheme) Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city.
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(figuratively, morpheme) Used with an adjective, noun, or gerund as a mildly intensifying locative, indicating a region or state of that kind.
The two combatants have been stuck in stalemate-ville for a very long time.
What do you reckon? Far outsville or far insville?
1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18: