villagehood

Noun

villagehood (uncountable)

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, 1752.1869, Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil, page 306
   • 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.2004, Robin Peck, Sculpture, A Journey To The Circumference Of The Earth, page 34
2. The people and culture of a village.
   • They came to the school, and in due course formed part of the young villagehood.1857, William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 24, page 76
   • But the practice of villagehood still remains a constant through all of this, creating Miloli'i people as opposed to just islanders.1995, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonathan Friedman, “Global Complexity and Everyday Life”, in Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local, page 162