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noun
A hamlet or township; a small settlement or locality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Early, Essex, Modern, Northwestern, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Inherited from Middle English *endeware, from Old English *endeware (literally “village people”), from ende (“end, extremity”) + -ware (“inhabitants”), metonymically extended from the inhabitants of a settlement to the settlement itself. Compare endship for a similar formation.
