Community
[kə'mjuːnɪtɪ] or [kə'mjʊnəti]
Definition
(noun.) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
(noun.) a group of people living in a particular local area; 'the team is drawn from all parts of the community'.
(noun.) a group of nations having common interests; 'they hoped to join the NATO community'.
(noun.) common ownership; 'they shared a community of possessions'.
(noun.) agreement as to goals; 'the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests'.
Typed by Billie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
(n.) Common character; likeness.
(n.) Commonness; frequency.
Checker: Wilmer
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Common or joint possession.[2]. [With The prefixed.] Commonwealth, people, public, society, body politic.[3]. Association, brotherhood, college.
Checker: Nathan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aggregation, association, commonwealth, co-ordination, society, sympathy,order, class, brotherhood, fraternity, polity, unity, nationality, similarity,homogeneity
ANT:Segregation, secession, independence, dissociation, disconnection, rivalry,hostility, animosity, estrangement, dissimilarity, contrariance, heterogeneity
Typed by Elinor
Definition
n. common possession or enjoyment: agreement: communion: (Shak.) commonness: people having common rights &c.: the public in general: a body of persons in the same locality e.g. 'village community:' a monastic body.—n. Communitā′rian a member of a community.
Editor: Percival
Examples
- The surplus he holds merely as custodian, and it is passed on to the younger members of the community as necessity demands. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The entire community surrounded us, leaving a clear space about one hundred feet in diameter for our battle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- At Jaffa we had taken on board some forty members of a very celebrated community. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You are eleventh, there are but ten chieftains in this community who rank you in prowess. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Go--leave me to my misery, boys, I am a ruined community. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- First, the majority of people in the community have low ideals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The method by which these creators of political America sought to secure this community of will was an extremely simple and crude one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All the year round, my people work for the well-being of the community, and these festivals, although they please them, are not without their objects. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Never before have men stood so barely face to face with the community of their interests and their common destiny. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As we have no written pedigrees, we are forced to trace community of descent by resemblances of any kind. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This organization of murder as a sport and show serves to measure the great gap in moral standards between the Roman community and our own. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The treatment seemed entirely moral and squared very well with the conscience of that community. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Community of study and amusement developed the best parts of his character, his steady perseverance, generosity, and well-governed firmness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But all the Greek communities were not of this conquest type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were in all probability made by human communities quite out of touch with the Aryans, separately and independently. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They have more of these kind of things than other communities, but they do not boast. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Acetylene is seldom used in large cities, but it is very widely used in small communities and is particularly convenient in more or less remote summer residences. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Inter-communication between the various Christian communities was very active. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some were refugee cities representing smashed communities, and in these the aboriginal substratum would be missing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The hordes of Thark number some thirty thousand souls, and are divided into twenty-five communities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Except when game is swarming, hunting communities must not keep together in large bodies or they will starve. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Manifestly this intercommunicating series of Judaized communities had very great financial and political facilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As is common in communities, a fashion was set. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Finally, with the appearance of human communities, came what is perhaps the most powerful of all living influences upon climate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But not in progressive communities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Not only houses are warmed by a central heating stove, but whole communities sometimes depend upon a central heating plant. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Formalism sets in as you move east and south into the older and more settled communities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For a time there were in Southern Europe drifting communities of some little known people who are called the Azilians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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