 community |
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| 1. | [ noun ] (sociology) a group of people living in a particular local area | |
| Examples: | "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" |
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| Related terms: | gathering village neighborhood hamlet parish horde speech_community | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (religion,sociology) a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common | |
| Examples: | "the Christian community of the apostolic age" "he was well known throughout the Catholic community" |
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| Related terms: | people house islam_nation convent | |
| 3. | [ noun ] common ownership | |
| Examples: | "they shared a community of possessions" |
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| Related terms: | ownership | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] affecting the people or community as a whole | |
| Synonyms: | public | |
| Examples: | "community leaders" "community interests" "the public welfare" |
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| Related terms: | common | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (government) a group of nations having common interests | |
| Examples: | "they hoped to join the NATO community" |
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| Related terms: | world_organization | |
| 6. | [ noun ] the body of people in a learned occupation | |
| Synonyms: | profession | |
| Examples: | "the news spread rapidly through the medical community" |
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| Related terms: | occupation businessmen community_of_scholars economics_profession health_profession priesthood legal_profession | |
| 7. | [ noun ] agreement as to goals | |
| Synonyms: | community_of_interests | |
| Examples: | "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" |
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| Related terms: | agreement | |
| 8. | [ noun ] (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | |
| Synonyms: | biotic_community | |
| Related terms: | group biome ecology | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] belonging to and maintained by and for the local community | |
| Examples: | "community parks" |
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| Related terms: | local | |
| 10. | [ noun ] (housing,geography) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | |
| Synonyms: | residential_area residential_district | |
| Related terms: | district territory suburb ghetto uptown warren Greenwich_Village Georgetown exurbia tenement_district housing_estate housing_development | |
| Similar spelling: |
COMINT commentary comment comminatory common_thyme comminute comminate commentate commanding common_time commination commentator commend commandery commandant command |
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