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com·mu·ni·ty  (k-myn-t)
n. pl. com·mu·ni·ties
1.
a. A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government.
b. The district or locality in which such a group lives.
2.
a. A group of people having common interests: the scientific community; the international business community.
b. A group viewed as forming a distinct segment of society: the gay community; the community of color.
3.
a. Similarity or identity: a community of interests.
b. Sharing, participation, and fellowship.
4. Society as a whole; the public.
5. Ecology
a. A group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a specific region under relatively similar environmental conditions.
b. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.

[Middle English communite, citizenry, from Old French, from Latin commnits, fellowship, from commnis, common; see common.]

community
Noun
pl -ties
1. all the people living in one district
2. a group of people with shared origins or interests: the local Jewish community
3. a group of countries with certain interests in common
4. the public; society
5. a group of interdependent plants and animals inhabiting the same region [Latin communis common]

community  (k-myn-t)
A group of organisms or populations living and interacting with one another in a particular environment. The organisms in a community affect each other's abundance, distribution, and evolutionary adaptation. Depending on how broadly one views the interaction between organisms, a community can be small and local, as in a pond or tree, or regional or global, as in a biome.

Community a body of people living in the same locality or having a common language or interest. See also cluster, combination.
Examples: community of feeling, 1823; of flies; of good, 1645; of interests, 1875; of power, 1561; of studies, 1841; of ulcers, 1541; of wives, 1564.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.communitycommunity - a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"
assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place
parish - a local church community
convent - a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
house - the members of a religious community living together
Islam Nation, Islamic Ummah, Muslim Ummah, Umma, Ummah - the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan; "moderate Muslims urge the Ummah to reject the terrorism of radical Muslims"
speech community - people sharing a given language or dialect
neighborhood, neighbourhood - people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
small town, village, settlement - a community of people smaller than a town
crossroads, hamlet - a community of people smaller than a village
horde - a nomadic community
Aleut - a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska; "the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically"
Circassian - a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia
2.community - common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"
ownership - the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
3.community - a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"
4.community - agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
accord, agreement - harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement"
5.communitycommunity - a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
housing development - a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management; "they live in the new housing development"
housing estate - a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time
district, territorial dominion, territory, dominion - a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
planned community - a residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents
uptown - a residential part of town away from the central commercial district
suburb, suburban area, suburbia - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
exurbia - a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia
tenement district - a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses
rabbit warren, warren - an overcrowded residential area
6.community - (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate

community
Translations
community [kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] ncomunidad f (= large group); colectividad f;
(local) → vecindario

community [kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] ncommunauté f

community [kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] nGemeinschaft f;
(within larger group) → Bevölkerungsgruppe f

community [kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] ncomunità f inv

community
n community [kəˈmjuːnəti]
1 a group of people especially having the same religion or nationality and living in the same general area the West Indian community in London. gemeenskap طائِفَه общност obec samfund die Gemeinschaft κοινότητα, παροικία comunidad kogukond جامعه yhteisö communauté קְהִילָה समुदाय, समाज, समूह zajednica közösség masyarakat samfélag comunità 共同体 공동체 bendruomenė, bendrija kopiena; mikrorajons golongan gemeenschap fellesskap; folkegruppe społeczność comunidade comunitate община obec skupnost zajednica koloni, grupp ชุมชน; สังคม toplum, cemaat 社團;社區 община, громада برادری cộng đồng
2 the public in general He did it for the good of the community; (also adjective ) a community worker, a community centre. gemeenskap المُجْتَمَع общество veřejnost, veřejný samfund das Gemeinwesen κοινότητα comunidad, colectividad ühiskond, üldsus اجتماع؛ جامعه yhteisö, yhdyskunta communauté; collectivité קְהִילָה समाज društvo köz(össég) masyarakat almenningur comunità; collettività 社会 일반 사회, 공중(公衆) visuomenė, bendruomenė sabiedrība; sabiedriskais- komuniti gemeenschap samfunn społeczność comunidade comunitate; colectivitate общество spoločenstvo; spoločenský skupnost mesna zajednica det allmänna, samhället เกี่ยวกับสังคม toplum, halk 公眾 суспільство; суспільний معاشرہ cộng đồng


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A PUGILIST met the Moral Sentiment of the Community, who was carrying a hat-box.
Yes, he said; but what is right in this particular case, like everything else, requires to be explained; for community may be of many kinds.
But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the whole bourgeoisie in chorus.
 
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