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com⋅mu⋅ni⋅ty

  [kuh-myoo-ni-tee]
–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.
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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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com·mu·ni·ty   (kə-myōō'nĭ-tē)   
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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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.
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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
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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>
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Science Dictionary
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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community

in biology, an interacting group of various species in a common location. For example, a forest of trees and undergrowth plants, inhabited by animals and rooted in soil containing bacteria and fungi, constitutes a biological community.

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