community
IPA: kʌmjˈunʌti
noun
- (countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
- (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
- (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
- (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
- (Wales, countable) A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.
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Examples of "community" in Sentences
- The concept of community management contains the word community.
- How else would we have developed such a “tight-knit community”, with * community* being the key word?
- _patronized_; patronized, not by a few persons, not by one half, or three fourths even of a community, but by the _whole community_.
- In education, the term "community partners" often conjures images of parent groups or local businesses who assist with fundraising drives.
- A community that is to any extent governed from without, like British India or London, is not a State, but part of a State, for it is not a _perfect community_.
- In a speech today, Brown will say: "I want serving your community to become a normal part of growing up in every community, because everyone has something unique to give and a great deal to gain from doing so.
- What you're describing in fact as "the community" is *your little grouplet you feel is the community* where someone with a pre-existing RL connection or game connection to a friend/colleague in ACS ginned this thing up.
- So we don't, for example, put a lot of effort into finding a way to control the alcoholism of aboriginals, or trying to stop domestic violence and gangs in the Sikh community, or put a lid on fraud in the Chinese community* because we don't want to admit out loud that these problems exist.
- Judging of things by the light of human prudence, he thought the community could never raise itself again to the position it occupied before the fire, and wishing to prevent a multiplicity of institutions in his diocese, he formed the design of uniting the _rising community_ to the _Ursulines_ at Quebec.
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