Community

Quick meaning: Community is a noun meaning (countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.

Meaning

(countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
2. (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
3. (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
4. (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
5. (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
6. (uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
7. (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.

Example Sentences

Nor wanting here, to entertain the thought, / Creatures, that in communities exist, / Less, at might seem, for general guardianship / Or through dependance upon mutual aid, / Than by participation of delight / And a strict love of fellowship, combined.

The Beguines, an uncloistered religiously inspired woman's movement began about the year 1210 in Liége, Belgium. Generally the Beguines lived in community or in small cottages behind a wall. At times threatened as heretics, they were finally disbanded by the Reformation.

"There was an underpass beside the station which was a difficult area for anti-social behaviour. Again, we got artists involved, and schools and the community to put murals in it, and now the community feels like it's theirs. For a small urban station, it has a really nice modern feel about it."

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.

Word Forms

• communities
• communitie

Synonyms for community

Depending on context, synonyms include local, profession, public.

Antonyms for community

Common opposites include anticommunity, noncommunity.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include common, local, profession, public, society, communality.

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