The Seoul she knew as a child was an overgrown village of wooden traditional homes, where families of all generations lived together.

No one has told them that your hotel is eight miles from the nearest town, which in fact is only an overgrown village.

Although little more than an overgrown village, it was a haven for young northern Europeans seeking an inexpensive vacation with much sun, sand, and sangría.

"We haven't the ladders to go at the walls of this miserable, overgrown village, whatever its name is-" "Erekh," Skylitzes put in.

More an overgrown village than a city, Luang Prabang sprawls along the river banks, its size disguised by the rolling landscape and the ubiquitous trees.

Several of its overgrown villages have developed strings of factories and sidings along the railway lines, and there is an abundance of petty villas.

Gibson was impatient to get back to the big city which, not so long ago, he had called an overgrown village.

It looked more like an overgrown village than a thriving metropolis.

Crater, he discovered in a cursory patrol of the place, was no more than an overgrown village.

Overall Zakopane feels more like an overgrown village than a town, its mainly villa-type houses set informally in their own gardens.