community
Pronunciation: /kəˈmjuːnɪ.ti/
The English word “community” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
- A residential or religious collective; a commune.
- A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
- The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- A feeling of togetherness or connectedness, common identity or of possessing a similar outlook, perspective and purpose with some group of people.
- Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
- Common character; likeness.
- Commonness; frequency.
- A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.
Etymology
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.
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- communitas
- communitive
- communitization
- communitize
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- community card
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