 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
community
noun
1: a group of people living in a particular local area; "the
team is drawn from all parts of the community"
2: a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious
characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the
apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic
community"
3: common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"
4: a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to
join the NATO community"
5: the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread
rapidly through the medical community" [syn: {profession}]
6: agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers
found they had a community of interests" [syn: {community
of interests}]
7: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private
residences [syn: {residential district}, {residential area}]
8: (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the
same region and interacting with each other [syn: {biotic
community}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Community \Com*mu"ni*ty\, noun; pl. {Communities}. [L. communitas:
cf. OF. communit['e]. Cf. {Commonalty}, and see {Common}.]
1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a
community of goods.
The original community of all things. --Locke.
An unreserved community of thought and feeling. --W.
Irving.
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.
Creatures that in communities exist. --Wordsworth.
3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic;
the public, or people in general.
Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
--Hallam.
Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the
definite article; as, the interests of the community.
4. Common character; likeness. [R.]
The essential community of nature between organic
growth and inorganic growth. --H. Spencer.
5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.]
Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Community, VA
Zip code(s): 22306
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