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Meanings

  1. village (rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town)

    1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 551In front of them was the village with its thatched roofs and the small, flat church steeple.

  2. figurativebackwater (remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.)

Examples

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Bei uns im Dorf kennt jeder jeden.In our village everyone knows each other.
Der See liefert Wasser für das Dorf.Water for the village is supplied by the lake.
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Er soll nie sein Dorf verlassen haben.People say that he never left his village.
Mein Bruder lebt in einem kleinen Dorf.My brother lives in a small village.
Er war jedem im Dorf bekannt.He was known to everybody in the village.
Im Dorf gibt es keinen Strom.There's no electricity in the village.
Ich bin auch ins Dorf gefahren.I went to the village, too.
Er wohnt in einem anderen Dorf.He lives in another village.
Die Straße führt zum Dorf hinauf.The road climbs to the village.
Das sind für mich böhmische Dörfer.It's all Greek to me.