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  • adjective Resembling a village or some aspect of a village.

Etymologies

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village +‎ -like

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Examples

  • His own memories of DVH strike me as overly rosy and nostalgic, but for all its failings, the grim-looking ward he lived in for over two years had a more communal and villagelike atmosphere than the outwardly more attractive but aseptic facilities he was moving to.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • His own memories of DVH strike me as overly rosy and nostalgic, but for all its failings, the grim-looking ward he lived in for over two years had a more communal and villagelike atmosphere than the outwardly more attractive but aseptic facilities he was moving to.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • That too, since most of the action takes place in a villagelike neighborhood whose residents gladly rally to Idrissa's cause.

    'Margin Call': Thrills, Chills of Financial Ills Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Sometimes concentration takes new forms: power centers, office parks, theme parks, and villagelike planned communities in the middle of nowhere.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • Sometimes concentration takes new forms: power centers, office parks, theme parks, and villagelike planned communities in the middle of nowhere.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • Sometimes concentration takes new forms: power centers, office parks, theme parks, and villagelike planned communities in the middle of nowhere.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • But no matter how villagelike a church community is today, members are inevitably going to come into contact with people who do question the rules.

    Philocrites: February 2005 Archives 2005

  • But no matter how villagelike a church community is today, members are inevitably going to come into contact with people who do question the rules.

    Philocrites: The conservative sky is falling. 2005

  • Ault describes Shawmut River Church as "villagelike."

    Philocrites: The conservative sky is falling. 2005

  • Ault describes Shawmut River Church as "villagelike."

    Philocrites: February 2005 Archives 2005

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