-VILLE Definition & Meaning

-ville

a combining form extracted from placenames ending in -ville, used in the coinage of informal nonce words, usually pejorative, that characterize a place, person, group, or situation ( dullsville; disasterville; Mediaville ) or that name a condition ( embarrassmentville; gloomsville ).

-ville

combining form

slang.
(denoting) a place, condition, or quality with a character as specified
dragsville
squaresville

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Origin of -ville¹

Ultimately from French ville “c��ٲ�”; bidonville

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The Panther De Ville was given to him in 1975 by his then-wife, fellow singer Sylvie Vartan.

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The Panther De Ville was a neo-classic luxury car with a 1930s-style design.

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But he actually used his victims’ money to splurge on luxurious cars and rare antiques, such as a pair of 1800s-era Italian throne chairs made of carved giltwood and a 1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Sedanca de Ville by Barker, prosecutors said.

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Jake DeBrusk of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks battles in front of the net with Moritz Seider of the Detroit Red Wings for the rebound on a save by Ville Husso during the third period at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

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The 26.2-mile course to Versailles and back was symbolic as well, retracing part of the 1789 women’s march on the royal gardens, a key moment from the French Revolution in which thousands of market women, shopkeepers and laborers gathered at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris’ city hall, to demand bread and arms, then marched to Versailles to bring Louis XVI back to the capital.

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