Noun: vill
Sample Sentences
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Sometimes the kings in their country vills and seats of pleasure or retirement built a place of worship, which was the origin of royal free chapels. [1781, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law, volume 1, page 61:]
Nouns inflected like vill
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman vill, from Old French vile (“farm, country estate”) (French ville (“town”)), from Latin vīlla. Doublet of villa and ville. See: French Nouns '
ville', Latin Nouns '
vīlla'.