villagehood

noun

Etymology

From village + -hood.

  1. derived from villa
  2. derived from vīllāticus
  3. derived from village
  4. derived from village
  5. suffixed as villagehood — “village + hood

Definitions

  1. The state of being a village.

    • It is, comparatively speaking, an old place, and was raised from villagehood to parochial rank by a Royal Letter of January 28th, 1752.
    • We drive west into the Wallachian countryside, past rows of daub- and-wattle houses, plastered with a blue wash, clustered together along the road, aspiring to villagehood.
  2. The people and culture of a village.

    • They came to the school, and in due course formed part of the young villagehood.
    • But the practice of villagehood still remains a constant through all of this, creating Miloli'i people as opposed to just islanders.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for villagehood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA