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

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

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2022

The village community fished in the creeks and managed nearby forests and grasslands with controlled burning, said Brian Byrd, an archaeologist with Far Western.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 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

It shows by itself that there may have been cases where the village community and the manor did not coincide, and the village community had the best of it.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul