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Dictionary: -ville

suff.
Quality; condition: dullsville.

[From place names ending in -ville (as JACKSONVILLE), from French, town, from Old French vile, from Latin vīlla, country house, farm.]


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In old English law, a division of a hundred or wapentake; a town or a city.

 
 
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