(n.) A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.
(n.) An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 5% stratified random sample of homesteads was selected and five local interviewers surveyed 333 kraals, interviewing 333 individuals, obtaining information on 3368 live members of these homesteads.
(2) Finally, standing opposite a kraal, or livestock enclosure, the security manager pointed to an empty rondavel that was indistinguishable from all the rest.
(3) Substantial evidence is provided to corroborate our previous finding that Escherichia coli ribosomes recognize two binding sites on the 5' end of alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) RNA 4 [for a preliminary report see Castel, A., Kraal, B., Kerklaan, P. R. M., Klok, J., and Bosch, L. (1977) Proc.
(4) Improvements included "an expensive cattle kraal with a culvert and chicken run, a swimming pool, an amphitheatre [and] marquee area", as well as "extensive paving and the relocation of neighbours who used to form part of the original homestead".
(5) If you don’t like where you live, you don’t like your neighbours, if you’re bored of your small town and desperate for adventure; you want the gold of Eldorado or the tea in China or the spices of India or the humans of West Africa; or you’ve just always wanted to know the source of the Nile, you roll up your backpack, step out of your kraal, your arrondissement or your burgh and you set off into the unknown.
Village
Definition:
(n.) A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(3) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(4) At the village level health care is provided at integrated service posts staffed by volunteers trained to treat common health problems with simple means such as treating diarrhea with oral rehydration.
(5) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(6) A spokesman for the UNHCR said that while there were many agencies working in Walungu, they had "minimal presence" in villages close to areas still occupied by Hutu militias known as FDLR.
(7) The study design of a project to investigate the epidemiology, population dynamics and control of intestinal nematode infections in fishing village communities in Southern India is described.
(8) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
(9) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
(10) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
(11) However, there is no certainty that both of Ainu and the people in Ueno derived from the same origin, or that genetic drift due to endogamy in this village took place.
(12) There was no immediate comment from Turkish authorities about the incident, which occurred in the village of Atima, across the border from the Turkish village of Bukulmez in Hatay province.
(13) Activists said the alleged massacre came a day after 72 were killed at the nearby village of Bayda .
(14) A village will be subject to rigorous evaluations in order to demonstrate sustainability and scalability, and that aid developed with an exit strategy can actually work.
(15) Mass drug administration via 3 modes of delivery reduced the incidence and prevalence rates and intensity of Brugia malayi infection in 3 rural villages in the Bengkoka Peninsula, Sabah, in 1982-1983.
(16) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(17) After 12-14 years of control the community microfilarial load (CMFL) was close to zero in all villages.
(18) Our subjects were young adults born between November 1960 and December 1962 to persons living in 10 villages in southwestern Alaska.
(19) In two experimental subdistricts, researchers observed the work of family welfare assistants (FWAs), the female family planning field-workers, to determine the duration and frequency of their home visits with village women and the content of their exchanges.
(20) He is just 17 years old and came back to his parents in the village after the Ebola virus closed our schools.