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Derived words

• Hooverville — an area where people generally lived during the Great Depression.
• Village — another loanword from French used for a settlement that was larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town.

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Usage of -ville in the United States

According to toponymist George R. Stewart, the use of the suffix -ville for settlements in the United States did not begin until after the American Revolution. Previously, town-names did not usually use suffixes unless named after European towns in which case the name was borrowed wholly. When a suffix was needed, -town (or the word Town) was typically added (as in Charleston, South Carolina, originally Charles Town). In the middle of the 18th century the suffixes -borough (-boro) and -burgh (-burg) began to become popular. The use of -town (-ton) also increased, in part due to the increasing use of personal names for new settlements. Thus the settlement founded by William Trent became known as Trenton. These three suffixes, -town/-ton, -borough/-boro, and -burgh/-burg became popular before the Revolution, while -ville was almost completely unused until afterward. Its post-revolutionary popularity, along with the decline in the use of -town, was due in part to the pro-French sentiments which spread through the country after the war. The founding of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1780, for example, used not only the French suffix but the name of the French king. The popularity of -ville was most popular in the southern and western (Appalachian) regions of the new country, and less popular in New England. George R. Stewarts books about U.S. highways were based on his cross-country drives in 1924, 1949 and 1950. ... John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies that... Nickname: Motto: Aedes Mores Juraque Curat (She cares for her temples, customs, and rights) Location of Charleston in South Carolina. ... Location of Trenton inside of Mercer County Coordinates: Country United States State New Jersey County Mercer County Founded circa 1719 Government  - Mayor Douglas H. Palmer Area  - City  8. ...

A few -ville names pre-date the revolution, but most of them are named after European settlements or dukedoms. For example, Granville, Massachusetts was named for the Earl of Granville. After the revolution and the decline in the use of -borough and -town, the two suffixes -ville and -burgh/-burg became by far the most popular for many decades. A difference between the usage of the two is that -burgh/-burg was almost always appended to a personal name while -ville was appended to any word. Some personal names became associated with one suffix or another. For example, Williamstown and Williamsburg are both more common than Williamsville; Georgetown is far more common than Georgeville. Granville, Massachusetts is a town located in Hampden County, Massachusetts. ... The Earldom of Granville has been created twice: once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ...

By the middle of the 19th century the -ville suffix began to lose its popularity, with newly popular suffixes with -wood, -hurst, -mere, -dale, and others taking over.^[1]

Notable "-ville" cities

• Nashville, Tennessee
• Knoxville, Tennessee
• Clarksville, Tennessee
• Charlottesville, Virginia
• Asheville, North Carolina
• Jacksonville, North Carolina
• Fayetteville, North Carolina
• Greenville, South Carolina
• Evansville, Indiana
• Louisville, Kentucky
• Huntsville, Alabama
• Gainesville, Florida
• Jacksonville, Florida
• Townsville, Queensland
• Danville, California

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"-Ville" in pop culture

• The Amityville Horror is a notorious horror movie.
• The City of Townsville from The Powerpuff Girls (contains 3 instances of words/suffixes meaning "town")
• Pleasantville
• Retroville
• Smallville

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Fictional "-villes"

• Smallville, Kansas (famous fictional home of Clark Kent/Superman)

This article is about Supermans adoptive home town. ... For other uses, see Clark Kent (disambiguation). ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ...

References

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