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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.
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            The original community of all things. --Locke.
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            An unreserved community of thought and feeling. --W.
                                                  Irving.
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   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.
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            Creatures that in communities exist.  --Wordsworth.
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   3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic;
      the public, or people in general.
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            Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
                                                  --Hallam.
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   Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the
         definite article; as, the interests of the community.
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   4. Common character; likeness. [R.]
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            The essential community of nature between organic
            growth and inorganic growth.          --H. Spencer.
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   5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.]
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            Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

community
    n 1: a group of people living in a particular local area; "the
         team is drawn from all parts of the community"
    2: common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"
    3: a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to
       join the NATO community"
    4: agreement as to goals; "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]