Derived Words
- Hooverville — an area where homeless people generally lived during the Great Depression.
- Village — another loanword from French used for a settlement that was larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town.
- villain — feudal serf, peasant cultivator in subjection to a lord.
- villein — the same word used by modern historians.
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