The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Village \Vil"lage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. L. villaticus belonging
   to a country house or villa. See Villa, and cf.
   Villatic.]
   A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town
   or city.
   [1913 Webster]

   Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage
      without a top.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Village, Hamlet, Town, City.

   Usage: In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses,
          too small to have a parish church. A village has a
          church, but no market. A town has both a market and a
          church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an
          incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the
          place of a bishop's see. In the United States these
          distinctions do not hold.
          [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

village
    n 1: a community of people smaller than a town [syn: village,
         small town, settlement]
    2: a settlement smaller than a town [syn: village, hamlet]
    3: a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village'
       became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th
       century [syn: Greenwich Village, Village]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "village":
   Kreis, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick,
   bishopric, borough, burghal, canton, citified, city, civic,
   commune, congressional district, constablewick, country town,
   county, crossroads, departement, diocese, district, downtown,
   duchy, electoral district, electorate, government, ham, hamlet,
   hundred, interurban, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan,
   metropolitan area, midtown, municipal, oblast, okrug, oppidan,
   parish, precinct, principality, province, region, riding,
   sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state,
   suburban, territory, thorp, town, township, uptown, urban,
   wapentake, ward, wick