villagehood

village +‎ -hood

villagehood (uncountable)

1. The state of being a village.
   • 1869, Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil, page 306:

     It is, comparatively speaking, an old place, and was raised from villagehood to parochial rank by a Royal Letter of January 28th, 1752.

   • 2004, Robin Peck, Sculpture, A Journey To The Circumference Of The Earth, page 34:

     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.
   • 1857, William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 24, page 76:

     They came to the school, and in due course formed part of the young villagehood.

   • 1995, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonathan Friedman, “Global Complexity and Everyday Life”, in Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local, page 162:

     But the practice of villagehood still remains a constant through all of this, creating Miloli'i people as opposed to just islanders.