society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of village > [noun] > collectively (5)
In Anglo-Saxon and Norman England: the inhabitants of an estate or village collectively. Cf. town, n. 1b, 3a. Obsolete.
The inhabitants or residents of a village; the villagers.
transferred. The people of a hamlet. (poetic.)
as many as a village contains; the whole of the people of a village.