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English meaning

  • backwater noun A place seen as remote, quiet, and untouched by modern trends or major events.
  • hamlet noun A very small settlement, smaller than a village, often just a cluster of houses without its own church or local government.
  • thorp noun A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
  • village noun A small community of houses, smaller than a town, typically in a rural area.

Senses

村 is used for these senses in English:

  • backwater (idiomatic, usually, figurative) A remote place: somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc; any field of endeavor that figuratively resembles such a place.
  • hamlet A small village or a group of houses.
  • mura Nonuniformity in the luminance of a display device.
  • thorp (archaic, now, chiefly, _, in, _, placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
  • village A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

backwater — full definition

  1. noun A place seen as remote, quiet, and untouched by modern trends or major events.
  2. noun Still water held back or diverted by a dam, obstruction, or the current of a larger river.

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