fishing village

collocation in English

meaningsoffishingandvillage

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fishing
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɪʃ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈfɪʃ.ɪŋ/
the sport or job of ...
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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 offishingandvillagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffishing village

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Eachfishingvillagehas a distinct corresponding reef fish stock.
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Some even seem to think of it as afishingvillage.
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My complaint lies in regard to the latter—thefishingvillage.
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If you form a small cooperative society in a smallfishingvillagethe price may be kept up artificially temporarily, but it will be undercut by offerings elsewhere.
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At the time it was a pettyfishingvillage, its early history as a strong fort and city in the 13th and 14th centuries having given place to complete decay.
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Some agricultural parishes contain afishingvillage.
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It has to be looked at in the historical context of a town that started as afishingvillageand grew into the third largest port in the country.
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I was in afishingvillagethe other day, and was very interested to find that even children were making doggerel rhymes about matches.
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Cramer is an attractive working village, traditionally afishingvillage, and famous for its kippers.
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Originating as a smallfishingvillage, it is now a popular tourist destination.
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It is afishingvillagewith a fish processing plant.
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It was afishingvillagethrough the 1800s, until pollution contaminated the oysters.
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He then goes back to thefishingvillagewhere he was born.
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The town appears to have been primarily afishingvillagefor hundreds of years.
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It was a coastal defense station that was disguised as afishingvillage.
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The remains of an oldfishingvillageare still visible.
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It grew as a smallfishingvillageand a new harbour was built in 1847.
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The locality was founded as afishingvillagearound 1900.
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The film also flashes back to an abandonedfishingvillage, where the apartment was eventually built.
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Residential development proceeded rapidly around the core of thefishingvillage.
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