ビレッジ

also: ヴィレッジ

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

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noun

village

A loanword from English, used in names of facilities, events, or themed areas (e.g., shopping villages, Olympic villages), rather than for traditional Japanese villages.

このショッピングビレッジにはたくさんのアウトレット店てんがある。

This shopping village has many outlet stores.

選せん手しゅ村むらは英えい語ごで「オリンピックビレッジ」と呼よばれる。

The athletes' village is called the 'Olympic Village' in English.

Related words

村むらN5
村 is the native Japanese word for a traditional rural village, while ビレッジ is a loanword typically used for modern, commercial, or international settings like shopping complexes or Olympic villages.

Don't confuse with

ビルN5
ビル means 'building' while ビレッジ means 'village'; the two loanwords look and sound similar at a glance but refer to completely different things.

Word family

エコビレッジ
ecovillage; eco-village
アーバンビレッジ
urban village
グローバルビレッジ
global village

Written forms

ビレッジUsage54%
Standard katakana spelling for the English loanword 'village'.
ヴィレッジUsage46%
Alternate spelling using ヴィ to more closely approximate the English 'vi' sound; less common than ビレッジ.

Etymology

Borrowed from English 'village'.