Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (6)
1. a group of people living in a particular local area;
- Example: "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"
2. common ownership;
- Example: "they shared a community of possessions"
3. a group of nations having common interests;
- Example: "they hoped to join the NATO community"
4. agreement as to goals;
- Example: "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
[syn: community, community of interests]
5. a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences;
[syn: residential district, residential area, community]
6. (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other;
[syn: community, biotic community]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Community \Com*mu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Communities. [L. communitas: cf. OF. communit['e]. Cf. Commonalty, and see Common.] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. [1913 Webster] The original community of all things. --Locke. [1913 Webster] An unreserved community of thought and feeling. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. [1913 Webster] Creatures that in communities exist. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. [1913 Webster] Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community. [1913 Webster] 4. Common character; likeness. [R.] [1913 Webster] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster] 5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --Shak. [1913 Webster]U.S. Gazetteer (1990):
Community, VA Zip code(s): 22306Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
261 Moby Thesaurus words for "community": Everyman, John Doe, Public, accord, accordance, affiliation, affinity, agape, agreement, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, ashram, assimilation, association, balance, bipartisanship, body, body politic, bonds of harmony, branch, brotherly love, caritas, caste, cement of friendship, charity, church, citizenry, clan, class, closeness, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, coequality, collaboration, collaborativeness, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, collusion, colony, commensalism, commerce, common effort, common enterprise, common man, common ownership, commonwealth, communal effort, communalism, commune, communication, communion, communism, communitarianism, community at large, community of interests, companionship, company, comparability, comparison, compatibility, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congress, consociation, consortship, constituency, conversation, converse, cooperation, cooperative society, cooperativeness, copying, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, correspondence, cultural community, culture, democracy, denomination, division, duet, duumvirate, dwellers, economic class, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, endogamous group, equilibrium, equipollence, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, estate, ethnic group, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, extended family, faction, family, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, folk, folks, frictionlessness, general public, gens, gentry, good vibes, good vibrations, group, habitancy, happy family, harmony, identity, imitation, inhabitants, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, kibbutz, kinship, kinship group, kolkhoz, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, linguistic community, love, mass action, men, metaphor, mimicking, moiety, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, nation, nationality, nearness, nuclear family, octet, offshoot, oneness, order, organization, parallelism, parity, partnership, party, peace, people, people at large, people in general, persons, persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, polity, pooling, pooling of resources, populace, population, profit sharing, proportionality, public, public ownership, pulling together, quartet, quintet, race, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, relativity, religious order, resemblance, sameness, schism, school, sect, sectarism, segment, semblance, septet, settlement, sextet, sharecropping, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, social activity, social class, social intercourse, social relations, socialism, society, solidarity, speech community, state, state ownership, stock, strain, subcaste, symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, totem, town meeting, trio, triumvirate, troika, understanding, union, unison, united action, unity, variety, version, whole people, world, you and me

