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Webster 1913 Edition
Community
Com-mu′ni-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Communities
(#)
. 1.
Common possession or enjoyment; participation;
as, a
. community
of goodsThe 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
. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. community
of monksCreatures 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.
☞ 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
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Community
COMMUNITY
, n.1.
Properly, common possession or enjoyment; as a community of goods.It is a confirmation of the original community of all things.
2.
A society of people, having common rights and privileges, or common interests, civil, political or ecclesiastical; or living under the same laws and regulations. This word may signify a commonwealth or state, a body politic, or a particular society or order of men within a state, as a community of monks; and it is often used for the public or people in general, without very definite limits.3.
Commonness; frequency.Definition 2024
community
community
English
Noun
community (plural communities)
- A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
- Hallam
- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
- Wordsworth
- Creatures that in communities exist.
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
- Hallam
- A commune, or residential or religious collective.
- The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
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- (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- (Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
- (obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
- John Locke
- The original community of all things.
- Washington Irving
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- a community of goods
- John Locke
- (obsolete) common character; likeness.
- H. Spencer
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- John Wilde
- There can be no community between us and them, unless by allying ourselves with murder, and sanctioning and sharing in the pillage of thieves.
- H. Spencer
- (obsolete) commonness; frequency
- Shakespeare
- Eyes […] sick and blunted with community.
- Shakespeare
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group of people sharing a common understanding
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commune or residential/religious collective
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condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common
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(ecology) group of interdependent organisms
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