community
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community/kəˈmjuːnəti/
▶noun (pl. communities)
- 1 a group of people living together in one place, especially one practising common ownership.
■ a place considered together with its inhabitants: a rural community.
■ (the community) the people of an area or country considered collectively; society.
- 2 a group of people having a religion, race, profession, or other characteristic in common: the scientific community.
■ a body of countries unified by common interests.
- 3 the condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
■ joint ownership or liability.
- 4 Ecology a group of interdependent plants or animals growing or living together.
– origin ME: from OFr. comunete, reinforced by its source, L. communitas, from communis (see common).
'community' also found in these Oxford entries:
abbey
- academia
- ashram
- association
- biocoenosis
- biome
- biopiracy
- biotope
- brotherhood
- care
- CARICOM
- CATV
- CE mark
- CFA
- Chamber of Commerce
- chapter
- charter school
- civil liberty
- climax
- coenobite
- colony
- common
- common market
- commons
- commonwealth
- communal
- communism
- communitarianism
- community care
- community centre
- community charge
- community chest
- community college
- community home
- community order
- community sentence
- community service
- community singing
- consociation
- convent
- custumal
- diet
- diglossia
- dominance
- dominant
- EC
- ecosystem
- ECSC
- EEC
