Village Definition–noun | 1. | a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality. | | 2. | the inhabitants of such a community collectively. | | 3. | a group of animal dwellings resembling a village: a gopher village. | –adjective | 4. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a village: village life. | |
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Candle Definition–noun | 1. | a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light. | | 2. | something resembling a candle in appearance or use. | | 3. | Optics. | b. | Also called international candle. a unit of luminous intensity, defined as a fraction of the luminous intensity of a group of 45 carbon-filament lamps: used from 1909 to 1948 as the international standard. | | c. | a unit of luminous intensity, equal to the luminous intensity of a wax candle of standard specifications: u
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