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Community Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Community? [n] (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other [n] the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community" [n] a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" [n] a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic community" [n] a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community" [n] a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences [n] common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions" [n] agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" [adj] belonging to and maintained by and for the local community; "community parks" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Community: biotic community \| community of interests \| local \| profession \| residential area \| residential district Related Terms \| Find terms related to Community: accord \| accordance \| affiliation \| affinity \| agape \| agreement \| alikeness \| alliance \| amity \| analogy \| aping \| approach \| approximation \| ashram \| assimilation \| association \| balance \| bipartisanship \| body \| body politic \| bonds of harmony \| branch \| brotherly love \| caritas \| caste \| cement of friendship \| charity \| church \| citizenry \| clan \| class \| closeness \| coaction \| coadjuvancy \| coadministration \| coagency \| cochairmanship \| codirectorship \| coequality \| collaboration \| collaborativeness \| collective farm \| collectivism \| collectivity \| collegiality \| collusion \| colony \| commensalism \| commerce \| common effort \| common enterprise \| common man \| common ownership \| commonwealth \| communal effort \| communalism \| commune \| communication \| communion \| communism \| communitarianism \| community at large \| community of interests \| companionship \| company \| comparability \| comparison \| compatibility \| complicity \| concert \| concord \| concordance \| concurrence \| conformity \| congeniality \| congress \| consociation \| consortship \| constituency \| conversation \| converse \| cooperation \| cooperative society \| cooperativeness \| copying \| corelation \| correlation \| correlativism \| correlativity \| correspondence \| cultural community \| culture \| democracy \| denomination \| division \| duet \| duumvirate \| dwellers \| economic class \| ecumenicalism \| ecumenicism \| ecumenism \| empathy \| endogamous group \| equilibrium \| equipollence \| equivalence \| esprit \| esprit de corps \| estate \| ethnic group \| everybody \| Everyman \| everyone \| everywoman \| extended family \| faction \| family \| feeling of identity \| fellow feeling \| fellowship \| folk \| folks \| frictionlessness \| general public \| gens \| gentry \| good vibes \| good vibrations \| group \| habitancy \| happy family \| harmony \| identity \| imitation \| inhabitants \| intercommunication \| intercommunion \| intercourse \| inverse proportion \| inverse ratio \| inverse relationship \| John Doe \| joining of forces \| joint effort \| joint operation \| kibbutz \| kinship \| kinship group \| kolkhoz \| like-mindedness \| likeness \| likening \| linguistic community \| love \| mass action \| men \| metaphor \| mimicking \| moiety \| morale \| mutual assistance \| mutualism \| mutuality \| nation \| nationality \| nearness \| nuclear family \| octet \| offshoot \| oneness \| order \| organization \| parallelism \| parity \| partnership \| party \| peace \| people \| people at large \| people in general \| persons \| persuasion \| phratria \| phratry \| phyle \| polity \| pooling \| pooling of resources \| populace \| population \| profit sharing \| proportionality \| Public \| public ownership \| pulling together \| quartet \| quintet \| race \| rapport \| rapprochement \| reciprocality \| reciprocation \| reciprocity \| relativity \| religious order \| resemblance \| sameness \| schism \| school \| sect \| sectarism \| segment \| semblance \| septet \| settlement \| sextet \| sharecropping \| sharing \| similarity \| simile \| similitude \| simulation \| social activity \| social class \| social intercourse \| social relations \| socialism \| society \| solidarity \| speech community \| state \| state ownership \| stock \| strain \| subcaste \| symbiosis \| symmetry \| sympathy \| symphony \| synergism \| synergy \| team spirit \| teamwork \| totem \| town meeting \| trio \| triumvirate \| troika \| understanding \| union \| unison \| united action \| unity \| variety \| version \| whole people \| world \| you and me See Also \| accord \| agreement \| assemblage \| bar \| biome \| business community \| businessmen \| community of scholars \| convent \| crossroads \| district \| economics profession \| exurbia \| gathering \| Georgetown \| Greenwich Village \| group \| grouping \| hamlet \| health profession \| horde \| house \| housing development \| housing estate \| international organisation \| international organization \| legal community \| legal profession \| neighborhood \| neighbourhood \| occupational group \| ownership \| parish \| people \| priesthood \| rabbit warren \| settlement \| small town \| speech community \| suburb \| suburban area \| suburbia \| tenement district \| territory \| uptown \| Village \| village \| vocation \| warren \| world organisation \| world organization Community In Webster's Dictionary \Commu"nity\, n.; pl. {Communities}. [L. communitas: cf. OF. communit['e]. Cf. {Commonalty}, and see {Common}.] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. --Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. --W. Irving. 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. Creatures that in communities exist. --Wordsworth. 3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. --Hallam. Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community. 4. Common character; likeness. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. --H. Spencer. 5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --Shak.

Community Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Community?

[n] (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
[n] the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community"
[n] a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"
[n] a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic community"
[n] a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"
[n] a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
[n] common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"
[n] agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
[adj] belonging to and maintained by and for the local community; "community parks"

Community In Webster's Dictionary

\Com*mu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. {Communities}. [L. communitas:
cf. OF. communit['e]. Cf. {Commonalty}, and see {Common}.]
1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a
   community of goods.

         The original community of all things. --Locke.

         An unreserved community of thought and feeling. --W.
                                               Irving.

2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or
   interests, or living in the same place under the same laws
   and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number
   of animals living in a common home or with some apparent
   association of interests.

         Creatures that in communities exist.  --Wordsworth.

3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic;
   the public, or people in general.

         Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
                                               --Hallam.

Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the
      definite article; as, the interests of the community.

4. Common character; likeness. [R.]

         The essential community of nature between organic
         growth and inorganic growth.          --H. Spencer.

5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.]

         Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --Shak.

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