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Webster 1913 Edition

Vill

Vill

,
Noun.
[OF.
ville
,
vile
, a village, F.
ville
a town, city. See
Villa
.]
A small collection of houses; a village.
“Every manor, town, or vill.”
Sir M. Hale.
Not should e’er the crested fowl
From thorp or
vill
his matins sound for me.
Wordsworth.
☞ A word of various significations in English, law; as, a manor; a tithing; a town; a township; a parish; a part of a parish; a village. The original meaning of vill, in England, seems to have been derived from the Roman sense of the term villa, a single country residence or farm; a manor. Later, the term was applied only to a collection of houses more than two, and hence came to comprehend towns. Burrill. The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I., mentions entire-vills, demivills, and hamlets.

Webster 1828 Edition

Vill

VILL

,
Noun.
[L. villa.] A village; a small collection of houses.
The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I mentions entire-vills, demi-vills, and hamlets.

Definition 2024

vill

vill

See also: Vill.

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪl
  • IPA(key): /vɪl/

Noun

vill ‎(plural vills)

  1. the smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish

Etymology 2

From will

Verb

vill

  1. Eye dialect spelling of will.

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German filu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fil/

Adjective

vill ‎(irregular declension, comparative mieh, superlative et mietste or mieste or mieschte or määste or määschte)

  1. much; many

Usage notes

  • The adjective is declined regularly after an article or determiner, otherwise it is uninflected.
  • The superlative forms et mie(t)ste, mieschte are Ripuarian, the forms et määste, määschte are Moselle Franconian.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German filu, from Proto-Germanic *felu. Cognate with German viel, Dutch veel, English fele.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fil/
  • Rhymes: -il

Adjective

vill ‎(masculine vill or villen, neuter vill or villt, comparative méi, superlative am meeschten)

  1. much, many
    En huet vill Frënn.
    He has many friends.

Usage notes

  • The positive forms are declined regularly after an article or determiner, otherwise they remain uninflected.
  • The comparative form is indeclinable and cannot be preceded by articles or determiners.
  • The superlative forms are declined in the normal way.

Adverb

vill

  1. much, a lot
    Dat Hiem ass vill ze kleng.
    That shirt is much too small.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse villr, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋɪl/
  • Homophone: vil
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Adjective

vill ‎(neuter singular vilt, definite singular and plural ville, comparative villere, indefinite superlative villest, definite superlative villeste)

  1. wild

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse villr

Adjective

vill ‎(neuter singular vilt, definite singular and plural ville, comparative villare, indefinite superlative villast, definite superlative villaste)

  1. wild

Derived terms

References

Old French

Noun

vill m, f

  1. rare form of ville

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse villr, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz. This is cognate with vild ‎(“wild”), which is influenced from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɪl/

Adjective

vill

  1. (dated) lost (not knowing place or directions)

Synonyms

Related terms

Verb

vill

  1. present tense of vilja.

References

  • vill in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman vill, from Old French vile ‎(“farm, country estate”) (French ville ‎(“town”)), from Latin villa.

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