Community
Pronunciation
- enPR: kə-myo͞oʹnə-ti, IPA: /k(ə)ˈmjunəti/, /k(ə)ˈmjunəɾi/
Origin
From Old French communité, from Classical Latin communitas
"community, n." OED Online. July 2009. Oxford University Press
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, from commūnis ("common"). Cognates include French communauté.
Noun
community
(plural communities)- A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
- HallamBurdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
- WordsworthCreatures that in communities exist.
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
- A commune, or residential or religious collective.
- The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- 2013-06-07, Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisation is about taxes too, 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.
- (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.
- John LockeThe original community of all things.
- Washington IrvingAn unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- a community of goods
- (obsolete) common character; likeness.
- H. SpencerThe essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- (obsolete) commonness; frequency
- ShakespeareEyes ... sick and blunted with community.