community
(noun)
noun
1. a group of people living in a particular local area
- the team is drawn from all parts of the community
Definition categories: group, assemblage, gathering
2. a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common
- he was well known throughout the Catholic community
- the news spread rapidly through the medical community
- they formed a community of scientists
Definition categories: group, people
3. common ownership
- they shared a community of possessions
Definition categories: possession, ownership
4. a group of nations having common interests
- they hoped to join the NATO community
Definition categories: group
5. agreement as to goals
- the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests
Definition categories: state, accord, agreement
6. a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
Definition categories: location, district, dominion, territory
7. (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
Definition categories: group, grouping
Sentences with community as a noun:
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
- a community of goods