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com⋅mu⋅ni⋅ty

  [kuh-myoo-ni-tee]
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–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 -ty 2 ; 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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Word Origin & History

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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Legal Dictionary

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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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: com·mu·ni·ty
Pronunciation: k&-'myü-n&t-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
: aunified body of individuals: as a : the people with common interests living in a particular area; broadly : the area itself community> b : an interacting population of various kinds of individuals (as species) in a common location c : a group of people with a common characteristicor interest living together within a larger society community of retired persons>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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