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8 dictionary results for: Community
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
com·mu·ni·ty       [kuh-myoo-ni-tee] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -ties.
1.a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
2.a locality inhabited by such a group.
3.a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists (usually prec. by the): the business community; the community of scholars.
4.a group of associated nations sharing common interests or a common heritage: the community of Western Europe.
5.Ecclesiastical. a group of men or women leading a common life according to a rule.
6.Ecology. an assemblage of interacting populations occupying a given area.
7.joint possession, enjoyment, liability, etc.: community of property.
8.similar character; agreement; identity: community of interests.
9.the community, the public; society: the needs of the community.
[Origin: 1325–75; < L commūnitās, equiv. to commūni(s) common + -tās -ty2; r. ME comunete < MF < L as above]

—Related forms
com·mu·ni·tal, adjective

—Synonyms 1. Community, hamlet, village, town, city are terms for groups of people living in somewhat close association, and usually under common rules. Community is a general term, and town is often loosely applied. A commonly accepted set of connotations envisages hamlet as a small group, village as a somewhat larger one, town still larger, and city as very large. Size is, however, not the true basis of differentiation, but properly sets off only hamlet. Incorporation, or the absence of it, and the type of government determine the classification of the others. 8. similarity, likeness.
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com·mu·ni·ty       (kə-myōō'nĭ-tē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. com·mu·ni·ties
    1. A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government.
    2. The district or locality in which such a group lives.
    3. A group of people having common interests: the scientific community; the international business community.
    4. A group viewed as forming a distinct segment of society: the gay community; the community of color.
    5. Similarity or identity: a community of interests.
    6. Sharing, participation, and fellowship.
    7. A group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a specific region under relatively similar environmental conditions.
    8. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.
    1. A group of people having common interests: the scientific community; the international business community.
    2. A group viewed as forming a distinct segment of society: the gay community; the community of color.
    3. Similarity or identity: a community of interests.
    4. Sharing, participation, and fellowship.
    5. A group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a specific region under relatively similar environmental conditions.
    6. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.
    1. Similarity or identity: a community of interests.
    2. Sharing, participation, and fellowship.
    3. A group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a specific region under relatively similar environmental conditions.
    4. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.
  4. Society as a whole; the public.
  5. Ecology
    1. A group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a specific region under relatively similar environmental conditions.
    2. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.


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

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
community 
1375, from O.Fr. communité, from L. communitatem (nom. communitas) "community, fellowship," from communis "common, public, general, shared by all or many," (see common). L. communitatem "was merely a noun of quality ... meaning 'fellowship, community of relations or feelings,' but in med.L. it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of 'a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen' " [OED]. An O.E. word for "community" was gemænscipe "community, fellowship, union, common ownership," probably composed from the same PIE roots as communis.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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community

noun
1. a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" 
2. common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions" 
3. a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community" 
4. agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" 
5. a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences [syn: residential district] 
6. (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other 

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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
community       (kə-my'nĭ-tē)  Pronunciation Key 
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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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: com·mu·ni·ty
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
1 : the people who live in a particular place or region and usually are linked by some common interests
2 a : the mass of community property owned by a husband and wife community or in particular things of the community —Louisiana Civil Code> b : the entity created upon the marriage of a husband and wife for the purposes of ownership of property in community property states community> —see also community property at PROPERTY, REGIME

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Community, VA Zip code(s): 22306

Nespelem Community, WA (CDP, FIPS 48550) Location: 48.16712 N, 119.01909 W
Population (1990): 291 (89 housing units)
Area: 59.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Nisqually Indian Community, WA (CDP, FIPS 49193) Location: 47.00585 N, 122.66983 W
Population (1990): 558 (162 housing units)
Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Community

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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