Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A village of which the chief industry is farming.

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Examples

  • Each of these units stood in the middle of a wooded park some five miles square; no unit was much more or less than twenty miles from its nearest neighbor, and the land between was the uniform golden-brown of ripening grain, crisscrossed with the threads of irrigation canals and dotted here and there with sturdy farm-village buildings and tall, stacklike granaries.

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Which would be better for a young man, just starting in life with a young wife, -- to go to a distant farmhouse to found his home, or to settle in a well-ordered farm-village under substantially the conditions described above?

    Village Improvements and Farm Villages 1865

  • Walt Whitman was born at the farm-village of West Hills, Long Island, in the State of New York, and about thirty miles distant from the capital, on the 31st of May 1819.

    Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

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