scattered villages

collocation in English

meaningsofscatteredandvillage

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scattered
adjective
uk
/ˈskæt.əd/us
/ˈskæt̬.ɚd/
covering a ...
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village
noun
uk
/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/
a group of houses and other buildings that is smaller than a town, usually in ...
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(Definition ofscatteredandvillagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Ascatteredvillageconsisting of many small hamlets.
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The total number of people speaking these three languages is estimated at 25,000, living in scattered villages in the interior.
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Small, scattered villages might do with these, and here parish councillors should be consulted.
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There are little scattered villages and hamlets at crossroads and so on.
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My constituency contains a large area consisting of remote, scattered villages with poor public transport facilities.
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Anyone who is familiar with a constituency like mine, with its many scattered villages, will realise the importance of these amenities and amusements.
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The landscape is rural with scattered villages and small market towns.
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The inhabitants lived in scattered villages, twelve of them, each ruled by its count, and all together ruled by the supreme count.
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The rest of the inhabitants are from small scattered villages, tucked in the hills of the county.
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Prisoners are housed within scattered villages usually at the base of valleys and mountains.
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This market town was surrounded by scattered villages, hamlets and individual farm houses to an elevation of 1600m ft.
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In the 1970s, wide expanses of the northern and eastern plains were sparsely populated, with scattered villages each huddled around an artificial lake.
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