community

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      Etymology

      From Old French communité, from Classical Latin communitas[1], from commūnis (“common”). Cognates include French communauté.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA: /k(ə)ˈmjunəti/, /k(ə)ˈmjunəɾi/
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      Noun

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      1. 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.
      2. A commune, or residential or religious collective.
      3. The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
        • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, 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.
      4. (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
      5. (Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
      6. (obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
        a community of goods
      7. (obsolete) common character; likeness.
        • H. Spencer
          The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
      8. (obsolete) commonness; frequency
        • Shakespeare
          Eyes […] sick and blunted with community.

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      Translations

      group of people sharing a common understanding
      commune or residential/religious collective
      condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common
      ecologycommunity: group of interdependent organisms
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      References

      1. ^ "community, n." OED Online. July 2009. Oxford University Press <http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50045241>.
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