village community

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

I have been helping to stock the pantry for over a year and found it to be nothing more or less than a well-run, perfectly clean and healthy, valuable community resource.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2023

Many Twitter users acknowledge that Twitter has no perfect substitute, and it may not make sense for you to jump ship if you’ve built a valuable community on the platform.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022

Most - including chapters here at MSU - regularly do valuable community service work.

From Washington Times • Jan. 24, 2018

The board ultimately backed away from that approach and granted the permit, calling the long-running German festival “a valuable community event.”

From Washington Times • May 26, 2015

“Hopefully today’s announcement, and similar results from independent reviews, will make politicians and media examine the facts more carefully the next time a valuable community organization is attacked.”

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2010