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

A village community in Kent came together to celebrate a special person born on Christmas Day.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

He mobilized and trained a network of 350,000 teachers and 12,000 village community leaders.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

But in the village community centre, the whispers began seven weeks ago when one of the coffee morning regulars said she knew someone who had chanced upon a bag of £20 notes.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019

Rupperswil mayor Rudolf Hediger told daily Aargauer Zeitung there was relief at the arrest but also "a certain amount of shame and dismay that it was really a member of our village community."

From US News • May 14, 2016

First, there is the village community with its Assembly or Mir, under the presidency of the Staroshta, who is elected by the village.

From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert