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-ville (vil)

  1. town, city: used in place names Evansville
  2. ☆ place or condition characterized by, fit for, or filled with: freely used in slang terms, typically derogatory, often with an infixed -s- dullsville

Etymology: < Fr ville, town, city < L villa: see villa

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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