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

In the case of the Timid Little Rabbit, this meant the village community protecting itself against a fox.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2022

But Stella Vaonirina, 38, the village community health worker, says she used to treat about 30 cases of diarrhoea a month when she arrived in the village in 1999.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2019

This principle flourished in the village community in which each individual was allotted his certain proportion of the lands owned in common.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore