集落 – vocab dash

集しゅう落らく

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Meanings

Noun

1. settlement; village; community; town

2. (bacterial) colony

Other spellings

聚しゅう落らく

Other readings

聚落じゅらく

Kanji used

集gather together 落fall down

Kanji in other spellings

聚crowd

Pitch accent

しゅうらく

Used in vocabulary

限げん界かい集しゅう落らく

marginal village; depopulated village where most inhabitants are senior citizens

Noun

環かん濠ごう集しゅう落らく

moated settlement (Yayoi period)

Noun

Examples1

それからまもなく幾いく人にんかの測そく量りょう士しと自じ称しょうする変へんな服ふく装そうをした人ひとたちが集しゅう落らくにやってきて、祖そ母ぼの小こ屋やの前まえを測はかっていきました。

Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.