community

[Com*mu·ni*ty]

If a number of people consider themselves one group based on location, work, religion, nationality, or even activity, they can be called a community. If you like to play online games, you are active in the gamer community.

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Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

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

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the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community"

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a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

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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"

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a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"

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a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

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common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"

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agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"


n.
Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

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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.

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Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.

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Common character; likeness.

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Commonness; frequency.


Community

Com*mu"ni*ty , n.; pl. Communities . [L. communitas: cf. OF. communit'82. Cf. Commonalty, and see Common.] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
The original community of all things.
An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
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.
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.
&hand; 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.
5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.]
Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community.

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

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Usage Examples

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

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Other Usage Examples

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

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