Definition of comunity
1. community [ n ] a group of people living in a particular local area
Examples:
"the team is drawn from all parts of the community"
(The Dallas Morning News,...)
The volume of ADC cases will decrease , Martin reported , when the community is able to deal effectively with two problems : Relatively limited skills and discrimination in employment because of color .
(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)
As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century .
Aside_from a quaint concern with witches and devils which provides the immediate problem in the opening scene , it is a quite normal community .
As the play unfolds , however , the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community .
If one asks about this play , what it is that comes_upon this community and works within it with such terrible power , there is no better answer to give than `` spirit '' .
Synonyms community Related Terms gathering village neighborhood hamlet parish horde speech_community2. community [ n ] 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"
(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)
To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors in spirit , the monastic communities , is with an appropriate shift of adjectives , misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato 's Republic :
To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors in spirit , the monastic communities , is with an appropriate shift of adjectives , misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato 's Republic :
in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes , in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes .
The apostolic community was literally an elite : chosen by Christ himself .
And the monastic communities were supposed to be made_up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors , their spiritual athleticism .
Synonyms community Related Terms people house islam_nation convent3. community [ n ] common ownership
Examples:
"they shared a community of possessions"
(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)
We find it in the later Stoic conception of man 's natural condition which included the community of all possessions .
Finally , the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More 's time , although it was not accepted by all the theologian philosophers of the Middle_Ages .
Because community not severalty of property is the law_of_nature no man can assert an absolutely unalterable right to what is his .
In all the respects just indicated Utopian communism differs from previous conceptions in which community of possessions and living plays a role .
Synonyms community Related Terms ownership4. community [ a ] affecting the people or community as a whole
Examples:
"community leaders"
"community interests"
"the public welfare"
(Sports Age, 24:9...)
The continuation and expansion of the shooting development program will assure to some degree that national and community leaders will be made aware of the ever growing need for shooting facilities and activities for hunting and shooting in answer to public demand .
Synonyms public community Related Terms common5. community [ n ] a group of nations having common interests
Examples:
"they hoped to join the NATO community"
(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)
As a nation , we feel an obligation to assist other countries in their development ; but this obligation pertains only to countries which are honestly seeking to become responsible members of a stable and forward-moving world community .
Synonyms community Related Terms world_organization6. community [ n ] the body of people in a learned occupation
Examples:
"the news spread rapidly through the medical community"
(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)
When these fields are surveyed together , important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence , a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions , primarily literary , religious , and philosophical , but frequently including contact with the fine_arts and even , to some extent , with science .
Synonyms profession community Related Terms occupation businessmen community_of_scholars economics_profession health_profession priesthood legal_profession7. community [ n ] agreement as to goals
Examples:
"the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)
Feelings of a community of interest will have_to be recreated - in some of the new nations , indeed , they must be built for_the_first_time - on a new basis which looks toward the future and does not rely only on shared memories of the past .
Synonyms community community_of_interests Related Terms agreement8. community [ n ] (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
Synonyms community biotic_community Related Terms group biome ecology9. community [ a ] belonging to and maintained by and for the local community
Examples:
"community parks"
10. community [ n ] a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
Synonyms residential_area community residential_district Related Terms district territory suburb ghetto uptown warren Greenwich_Village Georgetown exurbia tenement_district housing_estate housing_developmentSimilar Spelling
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