village community

noun

1. an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.

Example Sentences

So local village communities are coming together to repair canals, clear silt, plant small forests and clean lakes, reviving long-ignored water bodies that historically supported communities across the region.

From Ozy

The state, in distinction from the kinship group or the village community, was organized for power and profit.

From Project Gutenberg

They were not members of a German free village community, for they were tenants of a manor when they made their surrenders.

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First as to the whole territory or ager occupied by the village community or township.

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This is the markgenossenschaft, the village community of the West.

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The panchayet was a natural out-growth of our ancient village community!

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