community
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Etymology [edit]
From Old French communité, from Classical Latin communitas[1], from commūnis (“common”). Cognates include French communauté.
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Noun [edit]
Wikipedia community (plural communities)
- A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
- Hallam
- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
- Wordsworth
- Creatures that in communities exist.
- Hallam
- A commune, or residential or religious collective.
- The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- (Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
- (obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
- a community of goods
- John Locke
- The original community of all things.
- Washington Irving
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- (obsolete) common character; likeness.
- H. Spencer
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- H. Spencer
- (obsolete) commonness; frequency
- Shakespeare
- Eyes […] sick and blunted with community.
- Shakespeare
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Translations [edit]
group of people sharing a common understanding
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commune or residential/religious collective
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condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common
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(ecologycommunity): group of interdependent organisms
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References [edit]
- ^ "community, n." OED Online. July 2009. Oxford University Press <http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50045241>.
- community in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- community in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- community at OneLook Dictionary Search