community

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.

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

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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]

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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.

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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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	community - 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" global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization - an international alliance involving many different countries
	4.	community - agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" community of interests accord, agreement - harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement"
	5.	community - a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences residential area, residential district 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 biotic community 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

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community

noun 1. society, people, public, association, population, residents, commonwealth, general public, populace, body politic, state, company

noun 2. district, area, quarter, region, sector, parish, neighbourhood, vicinity, locality, locality, locale, neck of the woods (informal)

Translations

community [kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] n → comunidad f (= large group); colectividad f;

(local) → vecindario

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community [kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] n → communauté f

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community [kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] n → Gemeinschaft f;

(within larger group) → Bevölkerungsgruppe f

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community [kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] n → comunità f inv