Village is a term used to describe a SETTLEMENT of people, typically smaller than a TOWN. The term can be used to describe a variety of different types of settlements, including a thorp (5 letters), which is a small village or HAMLET (6 letters) with a church and a few houses, a BURG (4 letters), which is a fortified SETTLEMENT, a bourg (5 letters), which is a market TOWN, a dorp (4 letters), which is a Dutch word for a village, and a TOWN (4 letters), which is a larger SETTLEMENT than a village.