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a place small enough that everyone knows your business before you do.
means A small community in the countryside, usually larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, where people live close together.
from From Old French 'village,' built on Latin 'villa' — a country house or farm estate. As those estates gathered workers and dwellings around them, the cluster of homes took the name. So at its root, a village is just the people who lived around someone's big farm — and the word still carries that sense of everyone packed in close.
raises childrenthe proverb spans dozens of unrelated cultures
size limittoo small for a city, too proud for hamlet
oldest knownsettlements predate writing by thousands of years
shrinking worldglobal village coined before the internet existed