— villageless , adj. — villagey, villagy , adj.
/vil"ij/ , n.
1. a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.
2. the inhabitants of such a community collectively.
3. a group of animal dwellings resembling a village: a gopher village.
adj.
4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a village: village life.
[ 1350-1400; ME villaticum, neut. of villaticus VILLATIC. See -AGE ]
Syn. 1. See community .