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community

com·mu·nity

UK/kəˈmjuːnɪ.ti/ US/kəˈmjʉwnɪtɪj/ common

noun

1.

a group of people living in a particular local area

  • “the team is drawn from all parts of the community”
2.

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”
3.

common ownership

  • “they shared a community of possessions”
4.

a group of nations having common interests

  • “they hoped to join the NATO community”
5.

the body of people in a learned occupation

  • “the news spread rapidly through the medical community”
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6.

agreement as to goals

  • “the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests”
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8.

(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

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Origin

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūn(is) (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. By surface analysis, commun(e) + -ity. Displaced native Old English ġemǣnsċipe. Doublet of communitas.

Phrases

  • aim community
  • autonomous community
  • bedroom community
  • care in the community
  • climax community
  • community card
  • community cat
  • community centre

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