Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VIL'LAGE, n. [Fr.; from villa.]

A small assemblage of houses, less than a town or city, and inhabited chiefly by farmers and other laboring people. In England, it is said that a village is distinguished from a town by the want of market. – Cyc. In the United States, no such distinction exists, and any small assemblage of houses in the country is called a village.