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Community   /kəmjˈunəti/  /kəmjˈunɪti/   Listen
Community

noun
(pl. communities)
1.
A group of people living in a particular local area.
2.
Common ownership.
3.
A group of nations having common interests.
4.
Agreement as to goals.  Synonym: community of interests.
5.
A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences.  Synonyms: residential area, residential district.
6.
(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.  Synonym: biotic community.



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"Community" Quotes from Famous Books



... appears to have been the sub-gens. Besides it, there are other words frequently recurring in the Annals referring to divisions of the community, hay, home or household; [c]hob, sept or division; ...
— The Annals of the Cakchiquels • Daniel G. Brinton
... in the community as "Aunt Hailie," was sitting on her tiny porch when the interviewer arrived. "I'se a-tryin' to git my foots warm," she declared. "Dey was cold all last night, and didn't warm up none even when I had done walked all de way up to de courthouse to git dem cabbage what de welfare ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration
... know one another by eating the same food, wearing the same clothes, marching side by side, and submitting to another kind of discipline than that of our officers—the discipline of close association in a community of service. There's hope for humanity in that—for humanity trying to free itself of its fetters. We have mixed with the people of the capital. They have found us and we have found them to be of ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... shall find the same apparent consenting to the inevitable, the same tendency of all intelligent discussion toward the one result. One instance only of this feeling may be cited here, as showing how the young men—always the least despondent portion of any community—received the news of ...
— The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 • Samuel Adams Drake
... to general superintendence of the flourishing community in the midst of which he has cast his lot. He may be almost regarded as the prime minister of the islands, in addition to which he has started an extensive boat-building business and a considerable trade in cocoa-nuts, etcetera, with the numerous islands ...
— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne


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