1historical A village providing a high standard of housing, typically built by an employer for the workforce.
〈史〉（尤指雇主为工人建造的）模范生活区（内有高标准住宅）
he built a cotton mill and around it a model village for his workers
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Indeed, the intention was quite the opposite: Joseph Rowntree wanted his model village to inspire similar schemes across Britain.
Muirhouses was built in the 1860s as a model village for workers on the Carriden House Estate, and the original cottages were designated a Conservation Area in 1975.
Built as a model village in 1832, Ballydesmond parish and village were known as Kingwilliamstown until the 1930s, when locals decided the drop the old name and re-name the area Ballydesmond.
Visionary Robert Owen's 18th century Georgian model village - situated by the Falls of Clyde - is busier than ever despite a depressed market.
The Cadbury brothers' model village of Bourneville offered social activities, holiday pay, education and pensions in exchange for abstinence and church - going.
Hard up against the gates William Lever created the model village of Port Sunlight.
Later they would visit the town shops and cafes, and whole families can have a day out, combining a journey by rail on the Settle-Carlisle with the model village experience.
Organised by Saltaire Village Society, the festivities will incorporate all aspects of the famous model village from the mill and park to the cobbled streets and Leeds-Liverpool canal.
The famous model village of Port Sunlight was built.
2A small copy of a village or a collection of models of famous buildings arranged as a village, typically built as a tourist attraction.
模范庄园（仿某村庄建成的小型庄园或由著名建筑物模型组成的园区，常建为旅游景点）
a model village of Europe with landmarks from the member states in miniature
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Here he built enormous fountains - one twice the height of Nelson's Column - as well as an arboretum, a 300 ft conservatory, and a model village.
It is also an attraction in itself for all the family with an indoor play zone, a butterfly farm, model village and other fun attractions.
The city, perhaps eight hundred feet beneath them, now looked like a model village.
There is so much else to see, including a woodland walk, a model village and plants too numerous to count.
This year sees the return of the model village a great attraction for children and adults.
This model village in Leyburn has all the fine detail of village life on a scale of 1:32 - from the pub and post office to a church with a wedding taking place.
The miniature of a model village in the Tirumangalam Panchayat Union, (yet to come live) displayed in the lobby, creates a fantasy in you.
On its outskirts you will find the Bondville Miniature Village, ‘one of the finest model villages in the country’, including more than 1,000 hand-made and painted characters.
You can take a refreshing walk through this hand crafted model village and its beautiful gardens.
A recent visit to an open-air model village in Beaconsfield gave us, our grandchildren and their parents the best day out we'd had for years.
As well as guns and rods there will be a model village, demonstrating the vital links between local businesses and the rural population.
Embattled council leaders are facing mounting calls for a full public inquiry into their controversial plans to sell off a green city site to be redeveloped as a model village.
Archaeological findings at the site of a planned model village on the outskirts of York will be revealed at a public meeting next week.