1: a small, mostly self-contained settlement of people, usually with connotations of pre-industrial society.
2: what some say it takes a whole one of to raise a child.
3: what others say it only takes one child to raze.
4: what the same others say it takes the idiot of to have a child.
''It takes a whole village to raise *a* child'? How about a one-child-per-village limit, then?'
A small town, larger than a hamlet and usually containing between 100 and 2000people. The population may go up or down depending on the population of surrounding areas.
Also a term used to describe the East or Greenwich Village on southeastern Manhattan Island, or for that matter, any semi-self contained community within the dense fabric of a much larger city.
South Park is a semi-ficticious village in thestate of Colorado complete with a commercial/shopping district or main street, As is Dancing Rabbit, a growing eco-villiage in Missouri.
Somebody who is not street. A country boy from somewhere like Carlow/Wicklow. Village is below town, which is below city. You are then street then hood.