vicus

*A vicus is a civilian settlement outside a military base, a sort of cross between a suburb and a shanty town.

Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

*A vicus is a civilian settlement outside a military base, a sort of cross between a suburb and a shanty town.

Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls, by Ruth Downie. Book review Carla 2010

*A vicus is a civilian settlement outside a military base, a sort of cross between a suburb and a shanty town.

Archive 2010-08-01 Carla 2010

Then comes the "village," which St. Thomas called the vicus, made up of several families for the purpose of providing for those material needs which the family cannot fulfill.

Archive 2009-05-01 Bill Powell 2009

This is neither here nor in Pol. i. 1 the Aristotelian clanvillage, but the street of the medieval town, called vicus e.g., Vicus Straminis.

The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

This is an error; and wich is merely an Anglo-Saxon corruption of the Roman word vicus, as in Harwich.

Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

The civilian vicus, which is thought to date back to the first century AD, was discovered on agricultural land in Brougham close to the A66.

News round-up 2008

The Professor quietly assumes without proof that Bonaven and Bannaventa are one and the same; that "vicus" is used in its secondary meaning of

Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

The primary meaning of "vicus" is a district, or a quarter of a city, and "villula" signifies "a little country seat" (Smith's "Latin and

Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

• Robert J. Douglas-Fairhurst, Fellow and Lecturer of Victorian and Modern Literature at Oxford University, Selects: "Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012