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Noun
kampong spirit (uncountable)
- (Singapore) Dated spelling of kampung spirit.
1946 November 16, R. B. Ooi, “Village Life in Singapore”, in The Malaya Tribune, Singapore: Malaya Tribune Press, →OCLC, page 4, column 5:In the Union, kampong people have the kampong spirit, and in rural Singapore villagers must have the village spirit in order to improve their living condition.
1994, Zuraidah Ibrahim, Muslims in Singapore: A Shared Vision, Singapore: Published for Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura [Islamic Religious Council of Singapore] by Times Editions, →ISBN, page 34:Some of that kampong spirit still survives in the clean, orderly HDB estates today. But for the most part, Malay-Muslim families depend on their own immediate members.
2013, Josephine Chia, “Foreword”, in Kampong Spirit: Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN, page 11:Everyone needs someone. When the kampong spirit is in evidence, nobody needs to feel alone or abandoned.